Life Without Resistance is Life Without Meaning

turndog
2 min readJan 5, 2018

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Have you ever created something new…
… planned it… got excited about it…
… structured it and get to a point of starting it…
… only to then begin and find yourself resisting.

You want it, but you’re scared.
You want it, but you’re overwhelmed.

As a plan, it’s great.
But to start, that’s hard.

That right there is resistance.

You resist because it’s hard.
You resists because you can’t see a way out.

In the beginning, almost everything is hard.

I feel it right now.
I’ve started a program.
Like all things, it starts at the start.

Small.
Rough around the edges.
Stop and start.
Good, but not as you imagined it.

It’s like a first draft of a book.

Hell, it’s like the first draft of the your first chapter of a book.

You want to be further ahead, but you’e not.
You want to be done, but you’ve only just begun.

So you resist.
You are scared.
Your fear shines through.

This is me right now.

In business, I feel it.
In life I do (a new baby around the corner, after all).

But this is good.
Resistance is good.

A life without resistance is a life without meaning.

Because a life without resistance is a life lived in comfort.

Nothing new.
Nothing great.
Nothing special.

Just existence.

Life without resistance is just that: existence.

If you’re okay with that, fine.

But I’m not.
I don’t want a life of easy.
I don’t desire a life of settling.

I strive for more.
I yearn for more.

But the only way to ever have more is to push yourself to the point where you resist the next step.

And then… you take it.

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turndog
turndog

Written by turndog

hi, i’m turndog... a writer/ghostwriter on a mission to ensure you escape the hustle — come be part of the [no hustle] movement → nohustle.co

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