Epicenter

What's your purpose, your gift? Who am I? These kinds of questions many of us are on a journey to answer. The War of Art  is a guide to help you figure that out and get going on it. The war is the struggle you have everyday to be an artist. To hope for the future and do the work you were meant to do.  Art can mean any kind of work that we're being called toward. Starting a business, a new job, running for office or running a marathon. 

Resistance is the name the book gives to the force that holds us back. Its target is the epicentre of our being: our genius, our soul, the unique and priceless gift we were put on earth to give. It can be a helpful navigator though as the stronger it pulls us away from something the more important it is that we challenge ourselves to do it. 

I've always thought that my epicenter was love and caring. That it was my gift to share with the world. As important as it is to how I live my life I think my priceless gift is possibility. Helping others open up their hearts and minds to the potential in the future.  

My optimism is something I've taken for granted. Resistance has been keeping me blind to it. I'm often a little surprised when someone says "you always find a way to look on the bright side" because my view was just how I saw the situation. 

The light that went on when all of this clicked was amazing. Now comes the hard work of not giving into resistance each day. To not feed it with fear and to start figuring out how to build the habit. To stop waiting for inspiration and act in anticipation of the muse, light, whatever you call it, being there when I start showing up everyday to do the work.