The Seven Greatest Barriers To Your Greatest Work (5) No Pen!

The Executive Summary of The Greatest Barriers:

(1) Worrying about what other people think (2) The distraction of trivia and melodrama (3) The desire for perfection (4) Simply not being bold enough (5) Not having a pen (6) Believing things should be fair (7) Copying rather than innovating.

back story with barriers (1) and (2) here. Back story to (3) here. And (4) here.

Every project, every dream, every transition starts with the simplest of things: no more, no less. In our desperate scramble to procrastinate and give ourselves a bonafide excuse we may say we need a colour printer. Or to vist the real Cuba. Or to have an iPad for capturing ideas. But these are nothing compared to the real basics: resourcefulness, a simple plan oh and a pen and paper.

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