Every day, I meet with professionals online and in my office who struggle mightily to get things done.
I hear about projects that don’t get themselves finished, bills that don’t get themselves paid, marketing calls that don’t get themselves initiated, vacations that don’t get themselves planned, dishes that don’t get themselves washed, reports that don’t get written and clutter that doesn’t get cleared.
We avoid doing simple activities of daily living. We avoid going out of doors. We avoid exercise. We avoid setting boundaries, collecting unpaid receipts, marketing, organizing, planning…
The Struggle Is Real
Resistance is an internal refusal to accept or comply with something – even if we can acknowledge that the activity is something for our own good. At its core, resistance is an obstacle to the flow of electricity, ideas, change, or progress.
Resistance may be the number one reason you haven’t opened your private practice.
3 Steps to shift resistance:
- Begin with breathwork. Taking some slow, deep, therapeutic breaths will help to focus your attention and release the neurotransmitter support necessary to get the job done.
- Review your reasons why. It is natural to resist tasks that we feel are forced upon us – our defense mechanisms will kick in and we will withdraw into ourselves like a turtle. Own your reasons for opening your private practice. This is something you WANT to do. Emerge from your turtle shell and verbalize WHY you WANT to do this.
- Start somewhere. Write a skeleton framework for a blog post or social media call to action. Video yourself talking about how vulnerable you feel, pretend there’s an audience. Wash a dish. Put one notebook away.