What is this resistance? Steven Pressfield coined this term for that intangible, nagging challenge any of us have to accomplish something of significance. Resistance is that “handbrake” that stops you achieving exactly what you want. It is that annoying little guy on your shoulder who tells you to eat that Tim Tam a co worker just offered you. It is that “writers block” you get when you try and complete that important presentation you are pulling together for work. Pressfield put it best when he said Resistance – “Reduce it to a single cell and that cell will continue to attack”.
What to do about it? Acknowledge it, understand it will always be there. The decision is yours. Let it beat you or you beat it. Be it fear of how hard it’ll be or just a general sense of apathy, if you want it bad enough you will beat Resistance and achieve what you really desire.
The nemesis of resistance is consistency. This means train consistent, eat well consistently, read daily. The compounding effect of this consistency is the same as water creating a path through rock. It eventually wears it down. The rock tries to resist but because the water is consistent, it is unyielding, day in day out, it is inevitable that it will cut through the rock. Be like that with what is important to you and YOU WILL overcome resistance.
Ref – Steven Pressfield – The War of Art