GROWING up, juggling was always something I wanted to be able to do. There was, and to a certain extent still is, something majestic about the full circle style of the juggling you see in a cartoon, writes David McPhee.

Then I realised with age that the way they juggled in a cartoon wasn't exactly how it was done in real life.

I wasn't as shocked and as disillusioned as I was when I found out that wrestling was scripted, but still, it took a spring out of my step.

But it was still something I wanted to conquer and to be able to say I can juggle was some extra air for the ego.

So four years ago, at nineteen years of age, at 3am, I decided the time was now.

I fired up YouTube, got the fruit bowl ready, picked out the roundest looking fruit I could find and threw until there was a noticeable amount bruised and or missing.

To this day, this is still a recurring theme in my house. Every time I'm in the kitchen I have a little juggle of the fruit, but now that I'm in college I'm learning an entirely new format of juggling.

I'm learning to juggle life.

Allocating time for work, college, homework, friends, family, a relationship and time to do as I please without having a deadline or a guilty feeling over my head is an entirely different skill that I need to master.

I have to constantly remind myself as to why I'm doing it in the first place, otherwise self-doubt capitalises on an opportunity to come out of the dark corner that it was forced in to and sinks its teeth in.

But one day it will all be worth it.

Because even though at times the workload might be a little overwhelming, it's nothing compared to the positive feeling you get from pursuing your purpose.

The feeling of being on the right path and headed in the right direction, especially when you have already spent so long feeling lost and so long searching.

A book I don't refer to often enough in periods where I'm losing the inner battle with procrastination, or as he calls it Resistance, is Steven Pressfield's The War of Art.

I will leave you with some quotes of his from the book to give you an insight and to serve as some kind of motivation for myself: "The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not.

“He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

"Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.

"Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

"Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance."