Here is Charles Dickens, rejecting an invitation from a friend.

Thank you, Tim Ferriss, from whose blog the excerpts below come from, and even bigger thanks to Kevin Ashton for writing it in the first place.

I just came back from vacation and I’m about to plunge in on a Big New Project.

We said earlier that the playing field for the artist or entrepreneur is not level. Obstacles, often in the form of people seeking their own ends at your expense, are everywhere.

Here’s another way we can use our own Resistance, jiu-jitsu style, and turn it in our favor.

When I start a new project, I’m invariably crippled with self-doubt.

Continuing our discussion on Resistance “coming second,” i.e. only in response to (and reaction against) a creative Dream … let’s consider what it means when we find ourselves experiencing MASSIVE RESISTANCE to a project we have in mind.

We spoke last week about Resistance “coming second.”

One of the key aspects of Resistance (self-doubt, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, self-sabotage) is that it never arises alone.

When Shawn Coyne and I were first brainstorming the business concept behind Black Irish Entertainment, our two-man company that publishes The War of Art and its cousins, we wondered just how ambitious we wanted to be.