This post is
about overcoming ‘resistance’. The word ‘resistance’ may conjure up a number
of images in your mind:
For example, some dictionary definitions include:
:
refusal to accept something new or different,
: effort made to stop or to fight
against someone or something,
: the ability to prevent
something from having an effect.
For the
purposes of this post I am going to refer to the book, the War of Art,
by Stephen Pressfield.
In his book,
Pressfield labels the enemy of creativity ‘resistance’, his all-encompassing
term for a destructive force inside human nature that arises whenever we
consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others
something that is actually good.
I am going
to give you a simpler definition: resistance
is a thing that holds you back. Our daily lives are filled with
evidence of resistance at work. Here are some examples:
- Have you ever brought home a treadmill, and then let it gather dust?
- Have you ever started a diet, and then quit?
- Did you grow up with a dream of doing something really spectacular or accomplishing something really great with your life, and then never even attempted such a thing?
Pressfield
says that most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life
within us. What separates the two is resistance. Press field is writing to an
audience largely made up of creative types, but resistance is active in the
life of the entrepreneur.
Many of my
blog readers, newsletter subscribers, and book purchasers are individuals that
have often dreamed for years about starting their own businesses. Many things
have kept them from doing so:
- A perceived lack of start-up business capital
- A fear of giving up their regular job
- A perceived lack of a salable skill
- No prior business experience.
How about
you?
- Do you dream of being your own boss?
- Are you tired of waiting for the boss to decide what your raise will be this year?
- Would you like to invest your time and effort in building up a business that will be an asset when you retire, rather than spending 12 months a year building up your bosses’ business?
I started my
business as an act of necessity. See my story here. But you? YOU have a choice.
You can start your office cleaning business part-time, use it to generate extra
income to pay off bills or put the kids through college. OR, build a full-time
business with unlimited income potential.
My book will
show you how I started with just a few dollars, teach you how to bid an
account, present the proposal and get the job. Learn as you earn. Fight the
resistance that is holding you back!
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