Monday, October 1, 2012

The Resistance

Notes found while cleaning up my desk. Inserting this photo of Diana Vreeland, having just seen "The Eye Has to Travel" yesterday.  She was an utter force and extremely inspiring, a tonic.
 I'm pretty sure these are from Seth Godin, about the "resistance."  This is extremely pertinent to anyone who is self-employed who faces no external deadlines.  These are all paraphrased.
-You don't need more genius, you need less resistance.
-Freedom(meaning free time, no boss) feeds the resistance.  Your tasks are vague and hard to measure.  Freedom makes it easy to hide, easy to find excuses.
-There is stalling, a waste, an insidious plot to keep you from doing your real work
-Get around resistance with multiple paths, and different ways to win.  No one proposal is do or die.
-The work is feeding, amplifying, and glorifying the daemon.
-Which ever way the wind of resistance is, that's the way to head in your work. (So powerful a concept...)
-The closer you get to surfacing and defeating resistance, the harder it fights.

-Dream bigger

-Strip away anything that looks productive but doesn't involve shipping
Do nothing between projects-alone with your thoughts with the resistance.

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