“If Resistance couldn’t be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge.  Defeating Resistance is like giving birth.  It seems absolutely impossilbe until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.”

Stephen Pressfield in The War of Art

There are two rules for success:

1.) Don’t tell all you know

Thanks, Shari.  You rock.

“Worthwhile thoughts have not gotten any easier to come by, but it is certainly simpler to record them and to communicate them to others.  When almost anyone can print out words and thoughts there is, I suspect, a decline in reverence for the printed word.  This sets the stage for critical reading and makes it a more natural and acceptable thing to do.”   – Julian Meltzoff

So, do you think about what you read or just accept it all at face value?

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino (1923 – 1996)

This quote is from the fabulous site: The Quotations Page

Yesterday was the deadline for the costco.com coupons.  I was going to buy an anti-virus software for my kids’ computers that was advertised at $19.99, $35 off!  The ad had been sitting on my computer for nearly two weeks.  Why I wait until the last minute, I don’t know.  It’s the 11^th hour syndrome.  If the 11^th hour did not exist, nothing woauld get done.  So, in the 11^th hour, just before going to bed, I realize I need to buy this thing or I will miss out.  So I log on, put the item in my cart (it still says, “19.99 after $35 off”) and buy it.  Except my receipt says, “54.99.”  Why?  Because it is already the next day on the east coast.  So now I have to send an email to customer service and make a mental note to call Costco.com in the morning.  Which I haven’t done yet, but I will.  I haven’t done it because the following quote from Seth Godin’s blog was in my inbox.  Seriously.  Like he was talking just to me.

“Deadlines make people do dumb things. … Never mind that they had two weeks… the last fifteen minutes are all they are concerned with.  If it’s important enough to spend an hour complaining about, it’s certainly important enough to spend four minutes to just do it in the first place.”

Thanks, Seth.  I will remember your words, “If it’s important enough to spend an hour complaining about, it’s certainly important enough to spend four minutes to just do it in the first place,” next time I set something aside because there is “plenty of time” before the deadline.  To read Seth’s blog, visit sethgodin.com.