Do the Work
Devani and I love coffee and chai, and thoroughly enjoy inspiring conversations on all sorts of topics.
So our goal is to bring you one "inbetweenisode" as coined (we think) by Timothy Ferriss of the Tim Ferriss Show and Four Hour Work Week fame.
In these episodes we discuss favorite quotes and what it means to us, people who inspire us, business building for creatives, and whatever else may come up in conversation.
We'd love to have coffee with you, but until then, we hope you'll join us virtually!
“Take the bull by the horns. The dragon by the tail. And challenge your resistance to align with your mission rather than sabotage it.” LeAura Alderson
https://youtu.be/vyfkLQ0fhig
Links:
90 Day Goals Journal
The War of Art, Steve Pressfield
Do The Work, Steve Pressfield
90 Day Creator's Challenge & Mastermind
Full Episode Transcription:
LeAura [00:00:43] Hi welcome to the I create daily podcast a movement for creators serious about their art. I'm LeAura.
Devani [00:00:49] and I'm Devani and this is a coffee break episode in which we drink coffee and talk and you guys listen. So on the Coffee Break episodes, we read a quote and we find a riff on the quote and so I'll just dive into the quote. So, today's quote:
“Take the bull by the horns. The dragon by the tail. And challenge your resistance to align with your mission rather than sabotage it.” LeAura Alderson
LeAura [00:01:17] So what does that mean to you. We would love to hear. So please do send us your comments. You can e-mail us too at [email protected]. Meanwhile some thoughts that we have on this quote. So really it comes down to I think it was inspired perhaps originally by Steven Pressfield who is the author of a number of wonderful books including The War of Art and also Do the Work.
LeAura [00:01:48] They are some of our guiding manuscripts the things that we listen to or read at least annually pretty much to help us stay focused on not making excuses and getting work done and bringing our art into the world. So to me that's what it really is. It's recognizing that there are always going to be things in our way and rather than let those sabotage our progress and derail our goals in our life that we really need to again take the bull by the horns and get it out of the way and move on.
Devani [00:02:40] And we were talking a little bit before this kind of planning our episodes out and it's cool that we get to do this together because. LeAura is a very ‘grab the bull by the horns’ kind of person ‘attack the dragon’ kind of person like. Charge into the battlefield kind of person like she was like born ready for that type of stuff. And I'm very much a “I noticed you sharpened your horns this morning so I think I'm going to stay away” person which is that which is interesting because you get to hear both perspectives.
Devani [00:03:03] If you're not the type of person who has been that person who just like rushes in, charges in, ready fire aim, if that's not your vibe then it can be a challenge. And,
