Most people think about Resistance as the bane of every creator’s existence. It keeps you from finishing, from doing your best work, from creating something that could truly change people.

But that’s only if you give in to it.

You can also choose to view Resistance as a sign that you’re on the right track. The presence of Resistance means that you’re risking something with the work you’re doing, which is an essential element of work worth talking about.

Remember that you’re not the only one who feels Resistance exert its force on you when you sit down to create. You’re competitors almost certainly do as well.

This means that if you can embrace Resistance and find a way to thrive through the Resistance, you can pull away and set yourself away from the crowd.

I heard a story once of a Tour de France cyclist who’s philosophy centered around digging deeper, pushing harder and being better than everyone else when it came to the most difficult circumstances.

He said that you don’t win the Tour de France by being the best flat road and perfect weather rider. In those conditions, and at that level of competition, there’s almost nothing separating any of the riders from the pack.

Rather, you win by being the best at climbing steep, miles long hills at the end of a long day riding in the cold, pouring rain, when your entire body and mind want to give up.

Because everyone else is feeling the exact same way you are.

Finding the motivation to push through and be better in the most difficult circumstances is where the exceptional separate themselves and claim the rewards of doing so.

By adopting this mindset when it comes to Resistance, you can train yourself to look forward to the point at which it shows up. Because when it does, it means the real work has begun, that you’re on to something and that your opportunity to separate yourself from the competition has arrived.

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