Doing the most important task

I want to start this edition with the below image.

What if I may ask you to take a minute and study the two points marked and think of your current situation?

1) Emails in your inbox

2) Your most important task today

If it doesn't hit you hard, you are doing a great job already.

But for a vast majority of us, it will not be an easy thought to digest.

No matter what you are doing in life, it is always the case that we push the most important tasks a little further from the present.

Steven Pressfield calls it RESISTANCE.

That voice in our heads is not us. It is Resistance. Those thoughts are not our thoughts. They are Resistance. Where there is a Dream, there is Resistance. Thus: where we encounter Resistance, somewhere nearby is a Dream.

While doing the most important task, I think the most important step is to acknowledge the resistance every time we encounter it. And guess what, we all encounter it very often.

But just by acknowledging any of our emotions like fear, anxiety, tension, and worry we can manage ourselves much better than we possibly think we can.

?“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.” —Thich Nhat Hanh

So the next time when you are pushing the most important work you ought to do, take a minute and think of the ice berg shown in the image and remind yourselves that it is perhaps the resistance that is coming in the way.

And when you think of that resistance, it should immediately trigger the dream that lives next there.

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