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Overcoming Creative Resistance in Writing – My Struggle

December 9th, 2024

I contemplated, daydreamed, brainstormed, and checked Instagram…

Everything but actually write this.

Resistance.

That negative internal force that gets in the way of you pursuing your dreams.

You know exactly what project you dream of starting, the one you feel is your life’s calling—but the mix of procrastination, self-doubt, and anxiety get in the way.

So no pages of the dream book are written, no photographs of the renowned travel photographer are taken, and no episodes of the great podcast are released.

How can starting to write the book that you dreamed of be a 10-step walk to your desk, a terrible rough draft that takes 5 minutes to write, but yet there is something internal stopping you from starting it?

Yeah, that’s resistance.

Award-winning author Steven Pressfield wrote a great book on what it is, how to recognize it, and how to beat it.

And this post is just that: me overcoming resistance, doing the work that it feels like I’m meant to do (starting a blog), and in the process hopefully inspiring others to do the same.

Shout out to Ant for inspiring me to get this ball rolling from the last convo that we had.
Bob The Builder – There’s Levels

October 16th, 2023

This past weekend I helped my Mom around her house and we took on the project of finding away to cover an exposed pipe sticking out in the garage. (pictured below)

Her idea was to get some wood and build a structure around it so it could be protected from any cars or people that might accidentally hit it.

This took us hours to do — figuring out what the shape of the wood would be, measuring how it would fit on the wall, going to Home Depot to cut the wood, putting the wood together, etc.

But we did it. We built the structure from scratch and put it on the wall (yeah it might need some more tightening though). And it was hands on, rewarding, manual WORK. (pictured below)

Looks pretty simple right?

The amount of time and effort it took to build something like this from scratch, made me think about the Roman Empire and other great ancient civilizations.

They built huge cathedrals, temples, and massive structures like the aqueducts. (ancient construction pictured below)

These projects could involve building single pillars that weighed up to 53 tons (that’s more than 7 full grown African Elephants), mixing their own building material, and elaborate planning of these projects that could take years to figure out just how in the world these things were going to be built.

But they did it.

With no electronic drills, cement trucks, big machine cranes, fancy machinery… or Home Depot. And over a thousand and a half years later, many of the structures are still standing today. That’s crazy to think about. They have my respect.

Overcoming Creative Resistance in Writing – My Struggle

Bob The Builder – There’s Levels