“If you hear a voice within you say

‘you cannot paint,'

then by all means paint,

and that voice will be silenced."

Vincent van Gogh

There is often a little voice in my head that says "you can't paint."

Some days, I have to force myself to do it (and some days I don't manage even one brush stroke. Those days seem, somehow, incomplete...

Did you ever watch a squirrel in the middle of the road as you approach in your car? It's thinking, "Should I keep going, or double back?"

Indecision can prove fatal.

“Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart."

Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back?

Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.

"Indecision limits the Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you -- proceed. To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God."  

-Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift