Resistance to action happens in milliseconds, triggering automatic distractions. The resistance drill teaches you to pause, label the discomfort, shrink tasks to one tiny step, and log each moment you act. Track 30 logged moments to build momentum.
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Do you ever feel the resistance? Every time you try to take action, you've decided to act. Write the email, complete the task, respond to the message. Then, just when you want to start, you hit the wall. For a split second, your chest tightens and your thoughts blur, and before you know it, you're scrolling on your phone or here on YouTube. It's a cycle you go through on a daily basis, and it stops you from achieving your big goals. Part one, hijacking your brain. This moment, it happens in milliseconds. You get triggered by something and you feel this flash of discomfort. And then you go straight into an automated distraction. It's a micro moment. If you really zoom in at this point in time, the discomfort takes over and it derails us so fast you don't even notice it. It's really sneaky because each time it feels insignificant, but the cost is enormous. These small moments add up to hundreds and eventually thousands. So how does it actually work in your mind? Well, you feel this pain and we're wired to avoid pain, so we try and escape it. And then we feel some relief when we get away from it, when you're scrolling on TikTok or here on YouTube. And then you repeat the process. So what can we do? The resistance drill. So I want to get away from all of this theory and get you onto doing something practical. So this is a training drill. I get lots of clients to do when they are in this cycle. So the objective here is to try and break the automation that you're in in that fraction of a second. What you have to try and do is you have to try and pause, freeze in that moment and label it as a type of resistance. It is possible. If you start paying attention to it, then you want to shrink things down. You want to take the smallest possible step to lower the resistance. So maybe rather than thinking about writing the whole email, just open your email and click draft. Then once you start to work through it and start to make some progress, you want to imprint your ability to start taking action in here. This will help accelerate your improvement. So log your win. Track the moment you acted. Start with really small moments of resistance, and you really have to focus on getting the reps in. It's all about repetition. What will happen is your ability to tackle bigger moments will slowly grow. So don't worry too much if the. If the moments feel really small for now, because they'll get easier. Now I just want to talk about a practical way to track your resistance moments. I've got a little worksheet below, and it will be linked in the description. It will help you log these moments. So you can just use this, or you can create your own. Use it as a template to create your own one. Set a target, and it could be 30 moments of resistance. Log each moment you act despite your resistance, then see how you feel and treat this all like an experiment. So here it is. It's a little spreadsheet. And just below here, you can just about see. You can log the moments here, and you log how you feel, and you want to try and get. You want to try and capture as many moments as possible. I'd usually say around 30 is a good target. Now, we vary this depending on what people are working on and where they are in their journey. Right. That's all for this video. I'll see you in the next one.
