Satan's cohort Resistance.

From Steven Pressfield's The War of Art:

Have you heard this story:  A woman learns she has cancer, six months to live. Within days she quits her job, resumes the dream of writing Tex-Mex songs she gave up to raise a family (or starts studying classical Greek, or moves to the inner city and devotes herself to tending babies with AIDS).  Woman’s friends think she’s crazy; she herself has never been happier.  There’s a postscript.  Woman’s cancer goes into remission. 

Is that what it takes?  Do we need to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?  Does Resistance have to cripple and disfigure our lives before we wake up to its existence?  How many of us have become drunks or drug addicts, developed tumors or neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell phone use simply because we don’t do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to [do]?  Resistance defeats us.

If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink… would be out of business.  Prisons would stand empty.  The alcohol and tobacco industries would collapse, along with junk food, cosmetic surgery, infotainment… and pharmaceutical companies.  Domestic abuse would become extinct, as would addiction, obesity, migraine headaches, road rage, and dandruff.

Look into your own heart.  Unless I’m crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone.  You know it.  No one has to tell you.  And unless I’m crazy, you’re no closer to taking action than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow.  You think Resistance isn’t real?  Resistance will bury you. 

Hitler wanted to be an artist.  At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study.  He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts and later to the School of Architecture.  Ever see one of his paintings?  Neither have I.  Resistance beat him.  Call it an overstatement but I’ll say it anyway:  it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas. 

 Have a good and godly day.