When you push yourself to grow in a hurry, you hit yourself
where it hurts: right smack in your habits.
You start to interfere with familiar routines. You disturb the comfortable patterns you’ve
established in the way you live your life.
Before long, something deep inside starts pushing back.
These are the moments of truth. You’re about to find out how much you REALLY
want fast growth and change.
The biggest challenge to overcome will be your negative
reactions—your own resistance to change. Human nature—being what it is—states that
a part of you will fight hard to keep the ‘current you’ exactly the way you
are.
An exercise to practice when you feel this resistance is to get
to know (gain an understanding) of the enemy within. Understand how resistance operates. What triggers, specifically, cause this
resistance to occur? Expect that it will attack, and learn how to conquer
it. Otherwise, your growth efforts are
likely to fizzle out far short of what you hope for as resistance overcomes
your ambitions.
Resistance is a great con artist. It tries to make you believe that sticking
with your growth plans will be too painful.
Too difficult, or not worth the struggle. It wants to manipulate you into selling your
future for a small amount of immediate comfort.
But just like stretching out prior to exercise and continuing your
exercise plan helps you work out the potential muscle soreness, staying with
your fast growth program will push you past the resistance.
Remember this very important point: RESISTANCE
GROWS STRONGER WITH ANY EVIDENCE OF WEAKENING RESOLVE, BUT IT YIELDS TO ANY
RENEWED EFFORT.
Resistance is your mind (and body's) method of telling you that something unusual and different is going on--Don't misinterpret this message. It is simply a signal that you're at the edge of GROWTH.
The best thing you can do to conquer the enemy within is to
meet it—head-on. Stretch yourself a
little more and push for faster growth and change.
Posts
