Staying with resistance.

There's a predictable feeling that comes whenever we are about to do something important: like sending a message to a potential client or asking someone out for a date or sitting down to work on something important, something that needs to get done.

The stomach starts churning, the mind gets heavy, and the body starts acting up. Fear shows up. The amygdala starts taking over. We feel uncomfortable, anxious, and afraid.

All we want to do, in that moment, is to move away, to do something else, something that will release this tension. The mind says that we are not ready and that we should come back to it another time.

Resistance is cunning: it will press exactly the right buttons that will convince us to move away.

But that is exactly what we do not want to do. Moving away at that point is similar to someone in the gym who stops working out as soon as they start to feel some burn or pain. Nothing good comes out of it.

This is good pain and we can learn to stay with it and keep moving forward. And the more we do that, the more we will be able to take action that moves our life forward. We will be able to build relationships, create opportunities and inculcate a life of abundance.