The Heart To Start: Win the Inner War & Let Your Art Shine
parts, but it can also be the fuel to get you started. Elise Bauer was fighting a
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[ @miltonbooks] The Heart To Start
parts, but it can also be the fuel to get you started. Elise Bauer was fighting a mysterious illness. She had a flu that wouldn’t go away. She was in bed for months. If that wasn’t enough, her close friend and roommate died of cancer. Elise had had a promising career in tech – she had worked at Apple – but now she had spent much of her life’s savings trying to recover from this illness. She had to leave San Francisco and live with her parents at the age of forty- two. “I felt like a complete failure,” she told me when I interviewed her for Love Your Work. But Elise was able to pull through. Her parents were great cooks. As Elise regained her strength, she helped out in the kitchen. She started posting the recipes online, in hand-coded HTML pages. Elise started getting better, but then she suffered a relapse. She used those recipes to keep going. She told herself: “I’m just going to keep my mind focused on everything that is good and joyful and loving and wonderful in this world and in my life, and see what I can do to bring some of that to other people.” Today, Elise’s recipe site, Simply Recipes, is one of the most popular recipe sites on the Internet. She has personally posted more than 1,600 recipes on the site, one by one. And the illness that kept her in bed has long passed. When you’re looking for the heart to start, That Which Pulls You Through might not immediately be clear. Maybe it will get you started, like it did for Elise Bauer, but you might not find out what it is until the going gets tough. When things aren’t going your way, pay close attention to the things you tell yourself to keep moving. The more in touch you are with That Which Pulls You Through, the stronger the fuel you can find to get started and the steadier you can be throughout your journey. It might seem as if That Which Pulls You Through has to come from a painful experience, but it can also come from generosity. As author Seth Godin told me, “Generosity is an excellent antidote to fear. If you’re doing this on behalf of someone you care about, the fear takes a back seat.” Notice that Elise Bauer wasn’t simply reacting to her illness. She wanted to take the good things and “bring some of that to other people.” As I said, I probably couldn’t repeat the performance of writing my last book. I’m not going through that kind of pain, and a decade as an independent creator has hardened me: I’m not as afraid of embarrassment. But I still have something to pull me through. Throughout writing this book, whenever I’ve thought for a moment that it was too hard, or not worth it, I’ve remembered the twenty-five-year-old who didn’t recognize the person he saw in the mirror. I remember how close he came to not following his dreams, and I’m quickly filled with an urgency to prevent anyone else from making the mistake he almost made – the mistake of never even starting. Throughout this book, we’ve learned about the forces that threaten to keep your art inside you, and we’ve found many sources of fuel that can kickstart your journey and keep you going to the finish line. In the next section of this book, we’ll look at the many final mental obstacles that can keep you from finding the heart to start, and learn what you can do to overcome them. S E C T I O N I I I W I N N I N G B Y B E G I N N I N G |
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