Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

by Steven Pressfield

When we put our ass where our heart wants to be, we may change where we live; we may alter what we do to support ourselves. We may rethink the way we dress or wear our hair. We may shave our skull; we may acquire tattoos—or efface them. We may change political parties, invent new ones, or drop out entirely. Our taste in music, books, art, or movies may change. We may discard longstanding habits and addictions. We may acquire new enthusiasms, make new friends. We may marry or divorce. We may change the time we get up in the morning and the hour we go to bed at night. We may rethink the people we choose to associate with. We may make over the way we eat or sleep or decide or act. That which we had previously considered important, even vital or indispensable, we may now shed as lightly as a worn-out coat. We may elect to simplify our life. We many choose to live ten times larger. We may change our religion or drop religion entirely.