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🐝 One Idea That Shifts You
Book #01 — Resistance Is Gravity
📘 Inspired by: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
🎯 The Shift
What stops you is not fear, or laziness.
It’s a force called Resistance.
Every time you begin something meaningful — writing, exercising, healing, building — an invisible force pushes back.
It whispers:
"You're not ready."
"Start tomorrow."
"Who do you think you are?"
This is Resistance.
🌀 Visual Insight: Resistance as Gravity
Creative Flight
↑
[ You Start ]
↑
Gravity
(a.k.a. Resistance ↓)
Resistance pulls you down like gravity.
You don’t beat it with emotion. You beat it with motion.
⚡ The Antidote
“Start before you’re ready.”
Don’t wait for the perfect idea.
Don’t wait for energy or clarity.
Don’t even wait for belief in yourself.
Start small. Start scrappy. Just start.
Action generates momentum.
Momentum silences Resistance.
🛠 1-Minute Practice
Try this today:
Close all your tabs
Set a 10-minute timer
Begin the thing you’re resisting
No expectations. Just 10 minutes. Let the act defeat the doubt.
🧠 Quote to Keep
“Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate; it will seduce you. Resistance is insidious.”
— Steven Pressfield
💡 Closing Thought
If it scares you, excites you, or feels just out of reach —
it’s probably the very thing Resistance doesn't want you to do.
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