“How To "Sense" You're
On To Something Really Big!”
Dear Friend,
Ever hear about someone eating something spicy, and once they get the spices down, it makes them start sweating?
Well, the other day I was eating lunch with a friend of mine -- Mexican food -- and immediately after gobbling down some hot salsa, sweat starts pouring down my buddy's face, like he was a fat man in a sauna.
The truth is, sometimes in anticipation of you crossing the finish line on a project you're working on, your mind becomes filled with anxiety and fears -- and suddenly YOU start sweating.
Some of your fears will be real ("What if your project fails?")... and... some of them will simply be perceived ("What will my significant other think of me?" and... ironically, "What if your project fails?").
Steven Pressfield, in his book, The War Of Art, calls these fears, thoughts and worries, "Resistance".
And "sensing" Resistance, is actually a good thing.
See, when you feel resistance slowly creeping its way into the back of your mind, it usually means you're about to do something with explosive potential -- maybe something that will even change your life forever.
Hockey great Wayne Gretsky once said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
So start shooting, and don't be afraid.
My mentor once told me, most of the fears that spend their time preoccupying your thoughts (and wasting your time), have all been created, from the ground up, by you -- all inside the walls of your own mind.
And if you think about it -- it's true. After all, what IS fear?
It's not something you can touch... and it's certainly NOT something you can predict with great certainty.
It's simply "resistance" let loose up inside your head.
So don't let all these silly notions... all that other negative B.S... and of course, "resistance", hold you back from anything.
I know, just as well as you do, the tough thing is, these "energy-sucking" thoughts usually start playing themselves over-and-over again in the back of your mind, like some kind of vicious broken tape recorder... usually, at the times you can LEAST afford to hear them.
But like I tell my kids, "Whoever said life was easy? If it was, everyone would win."
Don't worry though.
When Resistance beckons, that's your cue, that you're getting a little out of your comfort zone, and that you're on the right track.
So dive in and don't be so afraid -- even if you are sweating like the fat guy over in the corner of your sauna.
Now go sell something,
Craig Garber
P.S. If you've been feeling resistance about really digging your heels into one of your projects, maybe this is exactly what you need - some hard-core eye-opening advice.
Any comments?
Send them to me by scooting over to the contact form on my "Here's How To Contact Craig" page, and maybe I'll publish them -- I appreciate your feedback!
You can reprint, or link to this article, or to any article on this web site, as long as you include the following text-box:
| “Craig Garber is America's top direct-response copywriter. Join the ranks of Garber's swelling list of global VIP's who subscribe to his unconventional weekly marketing moments, and discover how to dramatically boost your sales and improve the response to your sales copy, on his website at http://www.kingofcopy.com. Copyright © Craig Garber. All rights reserved.” |