Motivation can be fleeting and difficult to maintain. It is pretty easy to stat--for a few days--but it is often fleeting. The goal is to turn motivation into drive and make it a habit that you live by, every day. Here is a great book to help you find your motivation and to turn it into a daily habit.
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
I wasn’t aware that Steven Pressfield wrote non-fiction books until I came across this on the book shelf. And I was surprised to see it as Pressfield is better known for his great historical fiction novels.
He made worldwide attention and acclaim with his epic novel about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae: Gates of Fire.
So to a self-help book written by him was a bit surprising to me. Nonetheless, I gave it a shot because of his great work in the fiction department—always very thoroughly researched and written very well.
I also liked the play on words with the title of the infamous The Art of War. Very clever.
Essentially, this book helps people identify the things in life that come between themselves and the creative process. Something Pressfield refers to as Resistance.
Resistance is what makes us do something we don’t want to do instead of the things we want to, deep down.
It also identifies ways to help us overcome our desire to succumb to this resistance and actually become more prolific in our creative process.
This book is aimed at helping authors, artists and other creative endeavors, but it applies to all aspects of life that are hard and where people have natural tendencies not to do something, even though it is what they really want to do.
This is an absolute must for any blogger, author or anyone else that writes on a daily basis and needs help finding routine, drive and a sensible path to achieving that.
This book helps you identify and understand the things holding you back. And once you have identified the problem, it is much easier to create a solution.