Brian Johnson explores Steven Pressfield's concept of Resistance, the inner force behind procrastination and self-doubt. Pressfield's antidote: commit fully to today with the mindset "This is the day. There is no other day." Stop waiting for the perfect moment to start.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. In our last plus one, we spent some time with Steven Pressfield and his thoughts on the resistance with a capital R that exists within each of us. Call it whatever you want, Pardax the demon, but it's no joke. As Pressfield tells us, and I repeat, what is resistance? It's our own tendency, yours and mine and everyone's, to yield to procrastination, self doubt, fear, impatience, self inflation, self denigration, distraction, laziness, arrogance, complacency and perfectionism. It's our inability to focus our incapacity, to press on through adversity. It's our terror of finishing and exposing our work to the judgment of the marketplace. It's fear of failure. It's fear of success, fear of humiliation, fear of destitution. It's our inability to defer gratification, to acquire and act with self discipline, self validation and self reinforcement. We all, emphasis on all, have that little whiny voice within our heads that when we allow it to dominate our thoughts. Important distinction on when we allow it to, will try to convince us that what we're here to do is impossible. Here's the question for today. How do we deal with resistance? Well, here's one powerful way Pressfield deals with it. He tells us, and I quote, here's my frame of mind as I sit down to work. This is the day. There is no other day. This is the day. In other words, I release every thought that smacks of. Maybe we can do this some other time. There is no other time. Today is the Super Bowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die. Yep, today's the day, hero. Remember that even Mr. Rogers experienced the tortures of the damned, aka resistance, in Part X. Check out that +1 when he created scripts for his show decades into his work. Then take a deep breath, flip the switch and get to work. Today's our Super Bowl. Today's the day we give birth. Today's the day we die. Make today a masterpiece. Give us all you've got. As always, day one. All in. Let's go.
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