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In his book The War of Art author Steven Pressfield describes the well known adversary of anyone who’s attempted to accomplish something significant, Resistance. That old devil that wants us to do anything but what we should be doing, our work. We organize sock drawers, shuffle papers, fiddle around on some random website, all the while kidding ourselves that we’re accomplishing something, but the truth is we’re giving into resistance, and we know it.

Good God, how long will our lives continue to be up-ended by this invisible malice? At what point is the lawn so high that you finally muster the will to startup the mower? How long before you finally sit down to write that novel? That business or non profit you’ve dreamed of launching, when is that happening?

The truth is that you’re too brilliant and the world is too desperate for you to be defeated by resistance. I’m not saying it won’t be hard, but I think you’ll find the actual doing of something significant no where close to the pain of avoiding it all your life.

Start today and beat resistance. It’s pummeled you long enough, agreed?

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