Resistance is the greatest energy waster. It does not matter if you try hard or if you have power of will, if you are resisting your moves, resistance is likely to win. Think about it like this, if you accelerate your car but you hit the brakes at the same time, the car will stop because resistance is much easier to make (in a physical world, check with any honorable book about physics) so the car will just lie there, even if it’s a Bugatti.

What does resistance mean to you? Doubts, distractions, lack of direction.

If you feel any of the above “symptoms” you are creating a lot of resistance in you, which is terribly bad for you. With doubts you waste seconds every time you have to make a decision, after one year you might feel you wasted several days. That’s too much. Think always with the paper (or the computer), see the numbers, see the time, see the money, do not imagine what can happen. Distractions are another killer, they will shift your time, attention and efforts to something not worth a thing. These include funny websites while you are working, social networks, email every minute. Finally you have lack of direction. It does not matter if you run 1000 miles a month, if you keep going in circles guess where you will end!

How can you eliminate resistance? Most of the times you do not know where you want to go, so you are always traveling the same road over and over again. This is the most important thing to fix because all others will come from this one. Goal setting (goals again…) is the first (and only step) to give you extra energy and effort to anything worth accomplishing, only with a fixed outcome you can know if what you are doing is worth the effort. Do not be like the donkey that rides the wheel all day long, with nothing but a meal as expectation. There is another word for this, beggars and for those another one… too nasty to be said here.