Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be
by Steven Pressfield
The physical version of commitment: move to where the work is, sit in the chair, show up in body before mind. A short Pressfield sermon with his usual bluntness.
Read it if…
you keep intending and never sitting down.
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Skip it if…
you want nuance; it is one point, repeated with force.
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Three things you will actually use
- Body first; mind follows.
- Commitment is geographic.
- Sit in the chair.
Do this first
Put your body in the place where the work happens, today, for an hour.
Our verdict
Body first.
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