I know you have a dream or a big idea that you’re holding on to—and today you’re finally going to get the kick in the pants to take action. Best-selling author Steven Pressfield explains how Resistance, with a capital R, is that negative force that keeps people from pursuing their goals and holds you back from the money you deserve. He explains the difference between amateurs and professionals and says you can choose to mentally “turn pro” and play through adversity. If you’re still frozen in fear about your big dream, Steven says the pain of not doing it is always greater than the pain it takes to do it. And this episode will give you the push to just start!

 

What you will learn:

• How Resistance is costing you money
• The difference between an amateur and a pro
• Entrepreneurship requires self-discipline
• Just plunge right in
• Success is a by-product of doing what you love
• Adversity builds virtues
• The Warrior Ethos

 

Quotes:

• “So, Resistance is that negative force that seems to cripple us all when we try to have a dream and try to act on it.” – Steven Pressfield
• “Adversity is the nature of reality.” – Steven Pressfield
• “A pro shows up every day. A pro doesn’t show up only when they feel like it. A pro stays on the job all day.” – Steven Pressfield
• “When we’re an entrepreneur, we’re on our own. Or we’re a writer or an artist, we’re all alone in that room. We have to, that’s whole other skillset to develop, to be able to self-motivate, self-validate, self-reinforce.” – Steven Pressfield
• “If you’re in your chosen field, at least you’re learning. It’s better to be taking the blows than sitting on the sidelines somewhere.” – Steven Pressfield
• “So many people think that success, once you make a bold decision to launch something on your own, that things just happen. But it’s facing that wall every single day.” – Derrick Kinney
• “Success comes as a by-product of doing what you love and doing it at a high enough level that people want it, people want to participate in it.” – Steven Pressfield
• “Patience, perseverance, aggressiveness, resourcefulness, asking for help, studying, learning—all of those are virtues that we need to learn, above and beyond whatever our particular business is.” – Steven Pressfield
• “If we’re competing in business and we have rivals out there, we have to take them seriously. Because they’re as smart as we are and they’re doing the same thing we’re doing. What do they know that we don’t know?” – Steven Pressfield
• “Don’t wait. Start. But you don’t have to start full time. You don’t have to blow up your whole life to do it. But keep steady pressure on it and hours add up.” – Steven Pressfield

 

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Recommended Resources:

• Stevenpressfield.com
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (https://amzn.to/3wH0gIF)
• The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield (https://amzn.to/3d20CSo)