Does this ever happen to you?
You know there’s something you could be doing that will help move you towards reaching your goals for your business.
It could be creating a great valuable post for Instagram or your blog, something you want to write in your newsletter or online groups, a new product offering that you know your clients will love, developing an amazing idea for a workshop or even learning a new skill.
You put it on your to-do list and that’s where it sits for days. Maybe those days are now turning into weeks or even months. Each day it nags at you and you know you should start working on it but you find every excuse in the book to avoid it.
Things like…
I have to check my email.
I have to check what’s going on in my Facebook Groups.
I have to see how many new Instagram followers I have.
I have to go to the bathroom.
Time to start making dinner!
I’m too tired – I couldn’t possibly focus on it now!
Sound familiar?
This is called resistance. You are resisting something that you know is to your benefit but it will somehow take you out of your comfort zone….and your brain definitely doesn’t want that!
Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change.
– John Assaraf
This happens to me on a regular basis but the other day I was listening to a training by personal development expert John Assaraf on the topic of resistance and that’s when ti hit me and I became FULLY AWARE of my actions! Right then and there I was smack in the middle of one of my resistance episodes.!
It was later in the evening after my girls had gone to bed and I had intended to go on my computer to write a blog post. But first I made a slight detour to my In Box This led to a string of other time sucking activities. By now I felt waaay too tired to gather my thoughts together to write a valuable post, so instead I decided to open up Photoshop and edit some recent personal photos.
Helloooooo! If I was too tired to write, why wasn’t I too tired to edit images?
Once I became aware of what I was doing, I realized that Photoshop is my happy place – my comfort zone. But spending hours in Photoshop is not going to help me reach my goals or grow my business. (It would be a different story if my business was photo editing).
Once you become aware that you’re in resistance mode, it’s helpful to figure out how it’s taking you out of your comfort zone – what is it that you fear?
In my example, I was making writing the post seem too big. Fear of taking a lot of time. Writing, editing, looking for a photo to go with the post, creating the featured image for the post, etc. Then beyond that it could be a fear of being visible, being judged, thinking “does what I have to say even matter to anyone else?” (besides my mom, of course)
I’m telling you – awareness is key to busting through resistance. The things you are resisting are usually the most important things you could be doing.
Become aware first.
Write out your fears
Then go and do it anyway regardless of the fears!
Each time you do the thing you resist, you are stretching your comfort zone making things that much easier for you.
Not to mention a shorter to-do list!
What is it that you are currently resisting?
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