How To Be Here

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How To Be Here
Rob Bell

‘New York Times’ bestselling author Rob Bell shows us how to discover the greatness we were born for, successfully pursue our dreams, find our path, and live confident, fulfilled lives.Rob Bell believes that each of us has a path, a calling—whether it’s writing a novel, starting a business, joining a band, or simply becoming a volunteer. But many people are afraid to start on that path. Who are we to do that? Bell counters, Why not you? We need to learn to turn off the internal and external critics and leap. The universe is alive to help us. And we can only discover passion and joy after we take off.Interweaving engaging stories; lessons from Biblical figures; science, art, and business; honest personal experience; and practical advice, he offers invaluable insight on how to silence our critics, move from idea to action, take the first step, find joy in the work, persevere through hard times, and surrender the outcome. Combining the practical inspiration of Stephen Pressfield’s ‘The War of Art’ and the warm instructional insight of Annie Lamott’s ‘Bird By Bird’, ‘Yes, You’ encourages us to leave boring behind and embrace the fulfilling lives we are meant to have.

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Source ISBN: 9780007591343

Ebook Edition © March 2016 ISBN: 9780007591336

Version: 2017-03-07

Contents

Cover (#u971f11e0-696b-5c03-93c6-7604f624f73a)

Title Page (#u70c3b858-fd1e-542d-8bd2-19d7bf720a1b)

Copyright (#u02a72c22-892d-54e4-9c15-edc90fb198a0)

PART 1: The Blinking Line (#u4f747148-847e-5249-92ee-316bd54fa0c9)

An Unfinished World (#ub6514552-ba97-5e13-ab1f-8492742b1039)

Ex Nihilo-ness (#u6828faaf-c7b4-56fe-a029-a0c43aedb766)

Accountants and Moms (#uc611896c-998b-5a43-a438-d71f30b245cd)

Suffering (#u9258f455-b271-52fc-97cd-d926866ad45c)

Breath (#u2328ea18-3207-5400-9665-0b11d921a395)

Alert and Awake (#ue2629bf6-b2b3-53b2-be98-d5c7edc7cc5d)

Bored (#u1e1f1ba2-2331-520e-9c4d-ac46d125306d)

PART 2: The Blank Page (#u903e5818-7def-590a-bad0-0dedc6ac3f83)

Out of Your Head (#uaa508234-42d5-58fa-8390-fe644d8dd153)

Comparisons (#ubf464b63-2aef-557b-9647-6aa1c03bf638)

The You Experiment (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 3: The Japanese Have a Word for It (#litres_trial_promo)

Figuring It Out (#litres_trial_promo)

Someone Should (#litres_trial_promo)

Step (#litres_trial_promo)

Courage (#litres_trial_promo)

The Bus Route (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 4: The Thing About Craft (#litres_trial_promo)

The Corvette (#litres_trial_promo)

Honor and Privilege (#litres_trial_promo)

Reconnected (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 5: The First Number (#litres_trial_promo)

Step 1 (#litres_trial_promo)

Overthinking (#litres_trial_promo)

Suspend Judgment (#litres_trial_promo)

Nerves (#litres_trial_promo)

What You Don’t Know (#litres_trial_promo)

The Ramp (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 6: The Dickie Factor (#litres_trial_promo)

Deep Waters (#litres_trial_promo)

Failure (#litres_trial_promo)

Alive (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 7: The Two Things You Always Do (#litres_trial_promo)

The Mail Room (#litres_trial_promo)

Original (#litres_trial_promo)

Rejection (#litres_trial_promo)

Surrender (#litres_trial_promo)

This Is Where I Start (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 8: The Power of the Plates (#litres_trial_promo)

Rhythm and Sabbath (#litres_trial_promo)

Your Groove (#litres_trial_promo)

We Have This Morning (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 9: The Exploding Burrito (#litres_trial_promo)

Presence (#litres_trial_promo)

Seeing the Ocean (#litres_trial_promo)

Endnotes, Riffs, References, and Further Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgments (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Rob Bell (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 1 (#ulink_30bba326-474e-5ebe-9f97-caa923ea9b5a)

The Blinking Line (#ulink_30bba326-474e-5ebe-9f97-caa923ea9b5a)

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.

—Alan Watts

I once had an idea for a book.

I’d never written a book.

I was a pastor at the time and I’d been giving sermons week after week and I noticed that certain ideas and stories seemed to connect with people in a unique way. I began to see themes and threads and wondered whether I could bring them together to make something people would read and pass along to their friends. I already had a job, so I figured the only way to write a book was to hire a stenographer—the person who sits in a courtroom and records everything that is said during a trial—and speak the book out loud in one sitting while he typed what I said.

So that’s what I did. I stood there in a room and I spoke the book out loud while KevinTheStenographer typed away. It took an entire day.

And it was awful. Seriously—it was so bad.

There was a moment in the middle of the afternoon when I was talking and suddenly I realized that I wasn’t even listening to what I was saying. I had somehow managed to stop paying attention to myself.

A few days later Kevin sent me the typed manuscript of what I’d said and I started reading it, but it was like a mild form of torture. It just didn’t work.

It was my words, but it wasn’t me, if that makes sense.

All of which led me to the shocking realization that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to actually write a book. (#litres_trial_promo)

Which sounds obvious, but at the time it was a revelation.

I remember sitting down at my desk, opening up a new word-processing document, and staring at that blank page with that blinking line in the upper left-hand corner. I wasn’t prepared for how intimidating it would be. Other people are writers—actual, you know, authors. And there are lots of them, many who have been doing it for years.

I thought about Christopher Moore’s book (#litres_trial_promo) about Biff the thirteenth disciple

and Annie Dillard’s (#litres_trial_promo) line about physics labs

and everything Nick Hornby has ever written

and Dorothy Sayers’s words about Trinitarian creativity (#litres_trial_promo)

and anything by Dave Eggers (#litres_trial_promo) …

I was now going to try and do that? The blinking line on that blank page kept blinking, like it was taunting me.

There’s a reason it’s called a cursor.

We all have a blinking line.

Your blinking line is whatever sits in front of you waiting to be brought into existence.

It’s the book

or day

or job