I have often quoted Steven Pressfield, author of “Put your Ass where Your Heart Wants to Be.”
For a writer, it's Writing. For a musician, it's making music. For a computer programmer, it's programming. That is if those things are where your heart wants to be.
Now I know a person must make a living—that is, pay the rent and buy groceries, but there is a desire to do the thing that feeds our spirit.
I’ve been paying my dues to become a Real Estate Agent, and I like houses, helping people, and making money, but what I really want to do is write.
See, I’m writing now.
Most of today was sucked up with taking an Ethics Course Required to become a REALTOR and a member of the Multiple Listing Service. It required study and taking ANOTHER FINAL EXAM. I thought I was complete with those.
I’m fried.
It was nice to think that someone (William North in 1913) wrote the Code with 16 Articles (plus ten million “Standard Practices”)