I just finished reading Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield.  What an awakening!  Steven says, “When we’re living as amateurs, we’re running away from our calling — meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.  Addiction becomes a surrogate for our calling.  We enact the addiction instead of embracing the calling.  Why?  Because to follow a calling requires work.  It’s hard.  It hurts.  It demands entering the pain-zone of effort, risk, and exposure.”  Continue reading