Resistance Busters
Learning to overcome our own objections and areas of resistance in moving forward with a dream, plan or goal is part of the game. When you hit resistance, determine your game plan. Are you going to wait this one out? Fight, fight, fight? Cave? What’s YOUR best game plan when you are obviously up against a wall of resistance?
Today, as I pondered a point of resistance I am experiencing the phrase floated in – – ‘stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight’! I could hear the chant in my mind from my high school cheerleading days as we cheered on the Humboldt High School sports team. In the quick visual flash accompanying the chant, I saw the big high school letter ‘H’ superimposed over the mascot image, but the chant when confronted by resistance suddenly became this –
And then wisdom floated in right behind it.
The insight came, ‘pull out your resistance busting toolbox. Aha, I almost forgot about the toolbox. Resistance sometimes does that to you, playing hide and seek with the techniques, strategies, stop-gap measures we’ve stored in our unique toolbox. Nonetheless, we all have, can find, OR create just such a toolbox. Circumstance by circumstance, as we overcome, get the ‘aha’, get the victory, we learn to store the tool that worked best on the top drawer of the toolbox.
So today, I chose two tools by inspiration and began my resistance busting moves. What are they? The STARE DOWN and Whoosh! Be Gone!
The STARE DOWN tool works like this, you turn, face the resistance eyeball-to-eyeball and start the stare down. Whoever blinks or laughs first wins. That’s right, wins. In normal stare downs, you would lose, BUT since resistance doesn’t have a sense of humor and I DO, this is a no-brainer for me. Each time it taps me on the shoulder, I turn and initiate the STARE DOWN, with some attending humor. It’s a simple straightforward tool that I rely on from my toolbox. Stare it down and break it with a laugh. Or a blink, if that’s all you can muster.
The second tool is a swift wave of the hand in obvious dismissal. Much like swatting a fly. Quick, easy, effective. I’ts the Whoosh, Be Gone! tool. Give a wave of your hand the moment the resistance starts the mental ball rolling in your mind, change the channel with these words and a demonstrative flail of the hand, saying WHOOSH! BE GONE!
The takeaway? Know thyself. Develop a toolbox that fits your uniqueness. Keep it mentally, emotionally and spiritually handy and easily accessible. We all need creative and varied strategies for each resistance roadblock encountered. Resistance presents itself with so many masks: fear, anger, hurt, anxiety, frustration, hopelessness, unworthiness, procrastination. It’s not a one-tool-fits-all kind of fix, but there are tools. And your tools used strategically on the resistance nagging you, cause the breakthrough.
You may want or need help, guidance and encouragement while creating your toolbox. Just knowing you need a toolbox however, is a top-shelf tool in and of itself!
Here are some questions to ponder. Do YOU have a readily accessible toolbox for resistance busting? What are they? Which tools work best for YOU with the different masks resistance presents to you?
I’m here today to encourage and help you meet resistance that keeps incessantly ringing your front doorbell, knocking at the back door and keeps you dashing back and forth to answer it’s call. There are tools to break down and banish resistance, and even turn it to your advantage!
I’m cheering for you!
Stand up, sit down, fight fight fight! – Coachpreneur™Judyann
Coachpreneur™ Judyann | Brilliant Life by Divine Design®
‘One divine insight is worth it’s weight in gold!’ – Coachpreneur™ Judyann
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