Book: "The War of Art".

This book tells us about "Resistance", which is the reason why you have a gym membership, but, even though you paid for it, you stopped going, resistance is the reason why we do not follow that diet that will help us look better during the summer, resistance is the reason why you never became a doctor, mother, father or lawyer, the writer does not write, the painter does not paint, the entrepreneur never starts anything.

Many people are currently walking down the street of broken dreams because they were never able to face resistance, but when we ask ourselves how can we fight resistance, how and when do I identify it in order to destroy it? We must begin by clarifying one thing, resistance is faster than a bullet, it is more powerful than a train and harder to resist than heroin for an addict. If you are looking for an enemy, all you have to do is stand in front of a mirror and see yourself reflected in it.

Many people have overcome resistance and an example of this is a person who was diagnosed with cancer and the doctor predicted only a few months to live, upon learning this sad news this person could only think of something he had always wanted to do, but never did for a thousand excuses and excuses that had been put.then decided to go to travel around the world and for this decided to quit his job and as he longed to travel around the world and as he felt so good and so happy mysteriously cancer was minimizing.

We must ask ¿ourselves, do we have to be face to face with death to realize that resistance is killing us? We must remember that resistance has no color, no smell, and cannot be heard and the only absolute purpose of resistance is to keep us away and prevent us from doing our work, for example: a person who is preparing to run a half marathon and here the difficult thing is not running, but the thoughts that go through his mind every morning when he gets up and against which he has to fight; he has to convince himself that he has to go running but his mind starts to tell him things like that it is too early, that it is Sunday, that he feels tired, that yesterday he already exercised so today he does not have to do it, that it is cold outside and he can get sick, that it is too hot and he will not be able to with the sun, etc.

The same thing happens to all of us in different contexts, everyone suffers from this evil and it is our personal job to face it and overcome it. It is important to remember that overcoming resistance is like paying the rent on your house, but instead of paying it every month you pay it every day. No matter how many times you convince yourself resistance comes back at every opportunity and it has only one reason for existing and that reason is to keep us from achieving our goals.

The author gives us the example of Henry Fonda, who is an actor with many years of experience in Hollywood and who at 65 years of age before each presentation vomited from the nerves it caused him. So it doesn't matter how many times you overcome resistance, because the next day it will be there again to make you vomit and prevent you from doing your job.

The symptoms of resistance are many, but one of the main ones is procrastination. This happens frequently when we say "tomorrow I start" and this is always accompanied by instant gratifications such as: shopping, watching TV, eating junk food, excessive sugar foods, etc.

• You must introduce yourself daily.
• You must present yourself no matter what happens, because when you are creating, writing, painting, or have to follow a diet, nobody is taking care of you, or telling you what to do, you must have a commitment to yourself and meet your goals and Your obligations.
• We have to stay all day at work.
• We are committed for life.
• We accept payment for our work, because we are not here to have fun, we work for money.

Remember that to overcome resistance we must be disciplined and to achieve this we can follow these steps:

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