Moving yourself past resistance is a matter of shifting your perception of comfort. Itâs about considering the alternative. Itâs altering your mindset to focus on the discomfort you will face if you donât do the thing in front of you, as opposed to the discomfort you will face if you do. If left unchecked, the knowing-doing gap will leave you a shell of the person you intended to be. It will wreck your most intimate, passionate relationships, keep you from the kind of daily productivity required to achieve any goal worth working toward. It will keep you in a manic state of indecision (do I, or donât I? Which feeling do I let guide me?).
You have to take control for yourself, and you can do so by considering the big picture. The alternative. The way your life will be if you donât do this thing. How will you quantifiably measure this year? What will you have done? How many hours will you have wasted? If you had to live todayâor any average day âon repeat for the rest of your life, where would you end up? What would you accomplish? How happy would you be? What relationships will you have fostered? Will you be looking back knowing you likely damn well missed out on what could have been the love of your life because you werenât âready?â What about the hours you could have been playing music or writing or painting or whatever-ing? Where will those have gone?