“Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Start before your ready!” – Goethe / Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield’s book “Do The Work” changed my life.
The book is designed to coach you through a project through the eyes of Resistance. The project can be anything … starting a business, writing a book, working a fitness goal, mending a broken heart, taking an audition. Anything that involves moving from a lower plane to a higher one in life.
It’s 99 pages of sheer bliss.
Buy this book!
The game changer for me was really understanding what The Resistance is. It has changed everything for me … how I do business, how I live my life and how I can easily eliminate fear from most major decisions because I now know that fear is disguised as Resistance.
I have been waiting to write this post for a while.
It’s time.
Here are the 7 things you need to know about Resistance as told by Steven Pressfield:
- It’s Invisible – You cannot touch, taste or smell resistance. It’s a negative repelling force aimed to shove us away, distract us and prevent us from doing our work.
- It’s Insidious – It will assume any form, if that’s what it takes to deceive you. It will jam a nine-millimeter in your face like a stick up man. Resistance is always lying and full of shit.
- It’s Impersonal – It doesn’t know, or care, who you are. It acts objectively.
- It’s Infallible – Resistance will always point True North. It will always try to disrupt that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. Use this as a compass. If the resistance is there, you are on the right track.
- It’s Universal – You are not alone. Everyone with a body experiences resistance.
- It Never Sleeps – Henry Fonda threw up before each stage performance. He was 75. Fear doesn’t go away. We must fight a new battle every day.
- It Plays For Keeps – It’s goal isn’t to wound or disable. Resistance aimed to kill. To stop you. When we fight it we are in a war to the death.
Remember: RESISTANCE ALWAYS ARRIVES WHEN YOU TRY TO TAKE YOUR LIFE FROM A LOWER PLAYING FIELD TO A HIGHER ONE.
Fear of success is the essence of Resistance.
Again … If resistance is there … It means you are on the right track!!!
Start before your ready.
What is it in your life that needs to get started but the resistance is holding you back?
Be well. Be Inspired!
Judi
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