We’ve initiated our startup, our non-profit, our novel. A favorable wind of enthusiasm has borne us safely through the first stages. If we’re talking about a stage play, we’ve reached the end of Act One. Suddenly …

Revise that: Resistance strikes BEFORE we begin. How many of us have collected “notes” and amassed “research” for that life-altering project we’ve always dreamt of tackling?

Who will teach us? Who will be our guide and mentor on this monumental passage from the Old World of working for someone else to the New World of being the “rightful sovereign of our own person?”

We’ve been talking in the past few posts about self-reliance, self-sufficiency, the mindset of the entrepreneur and the professional.

We’re in the final hours of enrollment for my new course, Overcoming Resistance: From Start to Finish. If you loved The War of Art, think of this course as a live, immersive companion.

This is the title of a chapter in The War of Art. But let me expand on it here, from recent experience …

Here’s another way we can use our own Resistance, jiu-jitsu style, and turn it in our favor.

One of the key aspects of Resistance (self-doubt, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, self-sabotage) is that it never arises alone.