1. Last year, after making some huge life-changing decisions, I decided to turn my somewhat new found passion for exercise into a career.
2. Qualified as a Personal Trainer in Nov 2011 and I now work for the PT gym where I was once a client. I earn a very small wage, and my Muse keeps telling me to just get out there and start up my own business, rather than sit complacently in the gym, being paid an hourly rate. Resistance however is bigger, better, stronger and way more louder than Muse. So I sit, waiting, for what I’m unsure – for me to be ‘better’, ‘perfect’, ‘experienced’, perhaps ‘Ready’? The list is quite endless so I won’t bore you with it – but it is paralysing. Quite ironic given the industry of my career choice.
3. So it’s almost a year since I qualified, and I have a ‘few’ private PT clients, but most of my working time is still in the gym, earning about 1/3 of what I could be. Meanwhile Muse seems to have grown some muscle, and a voice, and is almost louder than Resistance. In fact it’s hard to hear much of anything else at times – because Muse and Resistance are in the biggest bout of their lives, and neither seems to be backing down.
4. I seem to be hearing Muse way more than ever before though, because I’m quietly making some steps towards creating my own PT business. Today I bought some extra gear for my PT ‘toolbox’, yesterday I signed up a new client.
5. I’m in the process of designing new business cards and was just now looking for a decent quote to add to it. I found one of yours on a motivational website, I hope you will allow me to use it: “Start before you are ready”. It kind of punched me in the face – because it speaks to me just as much as it would to any of my potential new clients.
6. Before committing to use the quote, I googled you, and found this post.
I love how the Universe works like this. I think Muse just won today’s bout. Don’t you?
Thank you for this post.

Have just read The Warrior Ethos and The War of Art, much of both twice. I have been following this ‘blog’ for almost a year, love it all, it has all offered me new/different ways of viewing life and the truths of it. (Now the point of my post) Last year I watched a program on a local PBS station called ‘A Celtic Pilgramage with John O’Donohue’. John O’Donohue was a Irish writer. I enjoyed it so much I found it online and ordered it. I just watched it again earlier this evening and was nearly startled at some of the similarities in the meanings of his message about inspiration/creativity and yours (from War of Art and some posts on here). His is also a different way of looking at it, but the bases are seemingly the same. Two great creative insights of our times, I feel lucky to know of both. I highly recommend that program to you and to anyone who would care for about an hours worth of peaceful reflectiveness.

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Looking forward to your weekly blog.

All the best,

Chris

Thank you Steven, for reminding me of what’s already inside me waiting to be brought forth.