Three *Not So Common* Books to Build the Mental Discipline You Need to Seize Your Days

Things you do every day define you.

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Here are three books that will help you with building the discipline you need —

The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

“The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield is like the battle cry for everyone who’s ever faced that beast called procrastination or been bogged down by self-doubt.

Pressfield, who’s a writer himself, gets straight to the point: the biggest thing standing between you and your creative goals is what he calls ‘Resistance’ with a capital ‘R’.

This Resistance is that inner critic, the fear, the self-doubt, and all the excuses you make to not do your art, writing, business, or whatever your creative work is.

1. Identifying Resistance: Pressfield describes how this force stops us from achieving our potential and how it disguises itself in various forms — procrastination, drama, self-drama, fear, etc.
2. Professional vs. Amateur: The book pushes you to stop treating your passion like a hobby. Be a pro about it — show up, do the work, and don’t let Resistance win.
3. Higher Realm: There’s also this cool spiritual aspect where he talks…