Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands the Resistance. – Steven Pressfield Any time we want to start a creative project, a new habit, or do something that requires emotional labor, we experience something Steven Pressfield calls “The Resistance”1. The resistance leads to procrastination. There is a
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans” Peter F. Drucker How do you keep the promises you make to yourself? Let’s face it, life gets in the way of our best intentions. But we have a powerful force on our side. Commitment. What are your associations with the word commitment? Burden, responsibility, and obligation?
Just like a fever may point to an underlying infection, an emotion may point to internal turbulence, to what needs attention now. We usually don’t ignore fever, so why do we sometimes step over, push away or bottle up emotion? We must attend to our emotions with the same care we bring to a fever. This topic feels especially important
“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.” — Byron Katie What a radical concept! Everything happening for us and things happening exactly as they are meant to. If we were to set
