2. FINISH READING STEVEN PRESSFIELD'S THE WAR OF ART

i didn't know what goal to set today. i didn't want to do anything, and i felt bad about it and guilty too because i've been looking forward to this blog all of december. i've spent a lot of time thinking about it and creating these expectations. i already have a list of about 50 goals and yet they seemed too hard and i wanted to give up on the 2nd day.

so i decided to finish this book i started reading a few days ago, Steven Pressfield's The War of Art (2003), and thought maybe this should be my goal for today--to finish books that i start. but then that seemed like a waste of time and not really beneficial to my life in the long run. also, not sustainable. so i decided to set the goal to finish one book a week. i think this is something i can do, and my life will be better for it. this will be an ongoing goal, one i can meet each week, so today's goal was simply to finish The War of Art.

this book is basically a self-help book about confronting procrastination. pressfield begins by distinguising the behavior of an amateur from a professional artist. he believes that to be human is to be an artist and that we procrastinate because we're afraid of achieving our full potential because to do so is very hard and requires much failure. also, he references tiger woods and arnold schwarzenegger a lot.

much of what he says feels truthful; however i immediately become suspicious of a book when i find myself nodding internally. he didn't really say anything new to me, but it was nice to re-think some of those thoughts in a more organized way. also, i felt less nervous after reading this book.