99% of people in this world fail because they can't conquer one thing this book right here is one of my favorite books of all time that teach you how to overcome resistance every single one of us feels resistance every single day most of us multiple times throughout the day every time the alarm clock goes off you feel resistance like I want to turn it off right you want to check your phone you want to scroll one more time you want to watch one more episode on Netflix like there's these things that keep holding us back
they think it's some external Force I don't have the time the money the energy but the reality is all of us have the same resources the that keeps you from being successful is learning how to control resistance when you can control the internal resistance you're having then externally you can achieve the things you want in life this book if you haven't read before is called the war of art by Steven prfi one of my favorite authors of all time I'm going to walk through four different steps to help you to overcome resistance so you can
get your goals accomplish your dreams and change the world all right with that said uh I want to walk you guys through the four steps that you need to learn to be able to overcome resistance in your life and over here we got them so these are the four steps to actually beat resistance um if it's been holding you back for any amount of time today is the day it's going to be gone forever I'm so excited for you to learn these things all right so step number one is called expose the enemy the first
thing you need to do is understand exactly what resistance is okay a lot of people don't even know this that internal force is the thing that's keeping them from success it's happening every single day over and over and over and over again so what is resistance well inside of the book The War of Art and here he's talking about uh people who are creating some type of art right so everyone's got got different art some of you guys are writers or you're designers or you're content creators or you're an athlete but everyone's got a different
art right and so the war of art is this internal War we're having as we're trying to create our art and uh obviously Stephen is a writer so he's using a lot of these metaphors in terms of someone who's an author who's writing but it's true for any anybody right so this is what he says he says there's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't and the secret is this it's not the writing part that's hard what's hard is sitting down to write what keeps us from sitting down is called res distance
I could replace this with any type of artart let's say for example you are a bodybuilder you're trying to get in shape right you're maybe not a bodybuilder you're just out of shape and you want to get in shape so I might say the same sentence like the secret that people who are in shape know that the people who aren't in shape don't know is this it's not the working out that's hard right it's the getting to the gym that's the hard part what keeps you from getting to the gym is resistance so I want
you think about this inside your life like what are all of the times resistance is hitting you now I had some of my clients do this one time we sat down and said for an entire 24-hour period of time let's map out every time resistance hits okay and I did the exercise with him the craziest thing is my alarm goes off every morning at 4:50 alarm goes off 450 first thing is I turn it off and instantly within the half a second waking up resistance hits me and goes roll back over go back to bed
so I grab my P pad of paper I'm like 4:50 a.m. resistance wanted me to go back to bed right then I get out of bed it's cold and my resistance is like get back in bed it's cold Hit It Again by the time it was like 5:00 in the morning resistance already tried to stop me like 10 times and what was crazy for me as soon as I became aware of the enemy as soon as I was able to understand this is who it is then I was able to address it and figure out
ways to protect myself from the enemy okay that's why step number one is exposing the enemy one of the things press Phil talks about here inside the book he talks about what's called what he calls the unlived life he says it's the athlete who doesn't compete or it's the writer who never writes or it's the painter who never paints or the or the entrepreneur who never actually starts his own business right and for most of us in parts of our life like we're not doing that we're not living the life that we were called to
actually live so that is the very first thing to understand is to uh understand who the enemy is because when you're aware of it now we can actually beat it which now brings me to step number number two in beating resistance step number two is this ready for this is understanding the lies of resistance okay now resistance is going to give you a whole bunch of lies to keep you from being successful now I'm going to walk you through a couple of these lies that that most of us hit every single day so the first
lie is the LIE of procrastination now this is one of the worst lies the resistance uses because resistance is not going to tell you oh don't go to the gym right it's going to say go to the gym tomorrow resistance is not going to say don't write the book it's going to say I'm going to write the book tomorrow right it's trying to get us to procrastinate the thing and this was fascinating for most people I don't know about you um but if we procrastinate something till tomorrow till Manana when Manana comes right what happens
they get procrastinate the next day and the next day till we never actually get things done right it happens for all of us in every single area of our life right so understand that the very first lie that resistance is going to tell to you is procrastination not that you're not going to do the thing but you're going to do it later when you understand that right and I know my enemy I know when procrastination is coming I'm saying that's resistance I got to stop that I cannot procr and I got to take action today
the second Li was called The Shadow calling this is where resistance will allow you to do a version of what you're called to do but not actually the thing that you were called to do okay for example uh with Steph prfi in his book he talks about for a long time he wanted to be a writer he wanted to write books he wanted to write screenplays for movies all sorts of stuff and eventually he actually did if you had if you know this he's the one that wrote the screenplay uh for the movie bag Rance
right with Will Smith like one of the best movies of all time he wrote that but it took him like 40 years of writing before he did this okay first he was doing writing copy for advertising companies then he was writing scripts for these projects He didn't like like he never actually did the thing he wanted he was doing a shadow version of it his calling was to write books to write screenplays and he was doing a version of it right he was writing copy for her clients he was doing things these other project where
he was writing but he wasn't pulling into his calling now Shadow calling is a metaphor for your real calling okay it looks very very similar the difference is there's no risk if you fail inside the shadow calling that's why resistance allows you to do that right if you're writing for somebody else and and it doesn't work it doesn't really matter for you to put yourself out there and to write something and put it out into the world right there's consequences if it doesn't work it's scary it's fearful so resistance is always trying to push you
to a shadow calling so that's line number two is that the shadow calling is your actual real calling line number three is what we call Pleasure not fulfillment okay resistance is always trying to get you a cheaper form of the thing you actually desire the most it's trying to give you the dopamine hit we get the reward without the actual effort okay nothing good comes in life when you're getting just the reward without the effort that goes into and this is true in all sorts of things um a couple examples I wrote down number one
is having an actual relationship with somebody you love versus pornography right one you get the you get the reward without the risk number two you get actual fulfillment reading about something all day long but not actually doing it right how many of us are reading and listening to podcast and like going through the motions but we're never actually doing the thing that we're called to do okay another one I have so many friends who get in this trap where they go to school and they keep going to school and they keep going to school and
they're so scared to get out of the school system because they don't want to actually do the work and then lie number four this is one step deeper than um a shadow calling you're kind of in the thing step number four line number four is literally full sedation when you're just sedated you're trying to like not even focus on the dream you're getting into drugs and alcohol anything to get your brain away from the pain of knowing that you're not living into your calling so these are the lies the resistance is giving you to keep
you from stepping into your actual calling all right you guys ready for step number three on how to beat resistance this one is one of my favorites of all time uh this one is really cool it is called the bigger the dream the bigger the resistance now I hear people say all the time they come to me like hey Russell I I want to do this thing but man there were so so many obstacles so many things that were happening that like there must be a sign this is not something for me to actually do
right like if if I was supposed to do this it would be easier and so they step away from their calling because of the trials and the headaches and the heartaches that come when they're trying to pursue the thing right and this is the reality that's not true the opposite is actually true now I was lucky enough after reading this book and freaking out because it's one of my favorites of all time I messaged the author Stephen prfi I said can I interview you for a few minutes I want to find out some more stuff
on about resistance how I could beat it inside of my own life and luckily for me and for you he said yes and so I actually have a clip over here of Stephen pressfield from my interview and I want to show this uh clip specifically because he's talking about this concept of the bigger the dream you have the bigger resistance is going to be so that said let's check out this clip from the man himself Steven pressfield imagine a tree in the middle of a Sunny Meadow the minute the tree appears a shadow appears and
the shadow is equal to the tree right if it's a big tree it's a big shadow so in the terms of resistance the tree is the dream that you have the book you want to write the Venture you want to do whatever and resistance is the shadow so there would NE there would not what I want to say is resistance always comes second there would be no resistance if there wasn't a dream if there wasn't a calling that was inside you so the good news of that is when you're feeling big resistance that big shadow
that shows that there's a big tree there something there's a big dreams because resistance always comes like Newton's third law of motion equal and opposite reaction it's a reaction to to an aspiration to a book you want to write or a movie you want whatever it is so don't be freaked out I would say to anybody by that dark cloud that dark shadow is an indication that the dream is for real and it's big okay so that is the key for you guys understand right the bigger the dream the bigger the resistance okay if you
have a big dream you start pursuing it gets hard it doesn't mean oh it's not meant to be no it means that it is meant to be right the greatest things in life don't come from Simplicity it comes through the pain through the hard work right it's getting the it's going through the effort the risk the trials and from the other side that is when the greatest things come out so understanding step number three here is that the bigger the dream the bigger the resistance and that's okay okay for me now in my life when
I'm going after something big I'm like man the resistance is huge here like I get doubled down like even more excited knowing that it means that this calling this thing I'm chasing the thing I'm pursuing is something that's going to change a lot of people's lives and the same thing is true for you okay so when you're on your own personal war of art when you're trying to create your art whatever that thing is for you and you feel the big resistance don't step away from it lean into it knowing that means you're on the
right track okay that brings me to step number four so how do we actually beat this thing right obviously we got to become aware of it number two we have to understand the lies it's using to beat us number three we have to understand that even if the resistance feels so heavy and so big we can't pursue it knowing that that is a sign that you are on the right path the last step here is then how do we beat it and this is one of my favorite ones and the reality is the way we
beat it is through action and you've heard people talk about this before but this is the key to actually beating resistance okay now in life there's different types of of motion right there's circular motion okay and most people get stuck in the circular motion where they're just kind of spinning their wheels they're going around these ruts over and over and they're never progressing they're never moving forward okay how many you guys feel like that sometimes s maybe you feel like that right now napole Hill calls that drifting says we drift into this hypnotic rhythm where
we're just like nothing's changing our life we keep succumbing to resistance and so like nothing ever progresses the second type of motion is forward is taking action you're actually moving forward right now the problem with direction is when you decide to move forward there's always a cost right sitting here and drifting there's no cost you're just kind of bouncing off the walls doing the same thing over and over again when you decide to move forward into momentum and actually take action there's a cost which is why it's scary it's why it's hard it's why the
resistance starts coming every time time you decide to move forward right when you are creating your art and you decide to move forward there's always going to be that resistance okay and the reason why is that our brains are programmed naturally to do a couple things okay one thing our brain is naturally built and coded hard coded into our brain to do is to avoid pain at all costs right you feel pain it's like I don't want to go there I don't want to do that okay so our brain tries to avoid pain number one
number two our brain is trained to seek pleasure let me go find the the fastest hit of pleasure possible how to get my dop me as quick as possible right on my phone through my like whatever we can do try to get seek pleasure number three is our brain wants us to conserve energy conserve calories so you don't run out of the calories we need to survive and number four is our brain wants to prove itself right we call this confirmation bias okay so those are four things our brain wants to avoid pain seek pleasure
uh conserve energy and prove itself right now to be successful and to beat resistance you literally have to do the exact opposite of what your brain has been trained to do okay number one instead of avoiding pain we have to move out of our comfort zone over and over and over again right creating Arts not not going to be simple writing books not simple so not only do we can't avoid pain we have to step into the pain okay number two instead of seeking pleasure at any cost we can to be successful in any any
area of life you have to actually delay gratification you have to allow that to build up before you get the reward number three instead of conserving energy to be successful you have to take Massive Action that's the opposite of conserving energy right it's waking up early it's working hard it's doing the things that your brain does not want to do okay and then number four to be successful you can't just try to prove yourself right to be successful in anything life you have to question your beliefs question your assumptions and become teachable and becoming a
student so those are the steps for how you can beat resistance now I want to give you guys one more key to being successful with this okay every single time you do something right you start moving forward you're into a direction instantly just like Stephen prfi talked about as soon as you do that resistance is going to show up okay and our default our brain quickly wants to go back to Drifting to the simpler version of it right so what's our job okay there's a quote from Victor Frankle is one of my favorites he says
between the stimulus and the response there's a space and in that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our responses in our response lies our growth and freedom so as soon as resistance hits us there's a space right most people hit resistance they give up for all of you guys soon as you hit resistance there's this little gap of space where you actually have the ability to choose and say no I'm going to move forward no I'm not going to believe that lie no I'm not going to procrastinate and that's where all success
and growth and happiness comes so that is what resistance is that's why the war of art is literally one of my favorite books of all time this is one um i' say about once a month I read it or listen to the Audi book the nice thing is it's really short it is the key to help you to overcome resistance in your life because the reality is like you being successful not successful is almost never about the external circumstances it's not about your resource about the money you don't have the time you don't have it's
almost always an internal thing it's your the the fight and the battle you're having with your brain every single day right resistance is that thing that's trying to keep you back from being suc successful so if you have art that you know you are called to create right to change people's lives again it could be a business you're launching it could be a video on YouTube you want to make it could be a podcast it could be anything whatever your art is if you want to learn how to win this war of art right to
beat resistance to be successful this book is one of my favorites I hope you guys love it now a couple really cool things number one I did this entire interview with Stephen pressfield it is insane we had so much fun going deep into this book talking about resistance how to beat resistance how to go pro and a whole bunch of other things um unfortunately I'm not going to attach that on to the end this video cuz it's about an hour long but if you go and search uh for the podcast I'm going to have the
entire long form versions on the podcast just go to your favorite podcast app and search in Russell Brunson or selling online or marketing secrets and you'll probably find the Steven pressfield interview it'll be the entire thing um and you are going to love it so check that out um number two is if you are enjoying videos like this or I'm going deep into my favorite books let me know in the comments down below um I'm really enjoying making these videos and I hope that you love them and if you do love them again let me
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