When You Meet Defiance

Sometimes, when I’m at my most cynical, I can’t understand how anybody ever accomplishes anything. You who are trying to create, make an impact, change your life – there’s so much rising up in defiance against you.

Steven Pressfield calls this “The Resistance”. Seth Godin calls it “The Dip”.

I call it…well I don’t call it anything really. I just like to list out everything that wants to steal your vision:

• Self-doubt
• Perceived lack of energy
• Fear
• Distractions like TV, social media, even books and research
• Perceived lack of time

These are some things that really want to keep you down, lazy, sterile. And yet some of you still create. You’ll still accomplish. You will break away.