08/23/2023
“As powerful as is our soul's call to realization, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it.”
“Does Resistance have to cripple and disfigure our lives before we wake up to its existence? How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don't do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to? Resistance defeats us.”
— The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The things we resist the most, the things we fear the most, are oftentimes the exact things we need to be doing. It’s so easy to be complacent, even if we're miserable. Change can be hard. And the more miserable we feel about something, the bigger the “change” we feel like we have to make to get to a better place. The bigger the change, the greater the resistance.
If you know where you want your life to go, what is the smallest step you can take today that would take you in that direction? Not a reasonable step you think you can do, the SMALLEST step you KNOW you can do.