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Overcome Your Resistance And Get What You Want

Lukas Schwekendiek
5 min readNov 20, 2020

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Most of us are very motivated individuals.

We want to do a lot in life, for which we have big dreams that often require a lot of work.

Sometimes, this work discourages us, but often we go forth anyway, creating battle plans and setting up habits to support that dream.

It might be a week in, maybe a month for some or a few for the really disciplined individuals, but most people will find Resistance before long.

The grind starts to get monotonous, the rewards decrease in originality and impact, and the times between rewards gets longer and longer.

We look to our goals realizing that the dream we have is far further away than we had first imagined, which makes us ever increasingly resistant to working for the dream.

We get enticed by the beautiful, large, gilded Treasure Chest on the other side of the swamp until we are neck deep in it and wonder if braving the swamp was ever worth that Treasure.

This is how it started for most of us.

We kept going for dream after dream, not holding anything back, only to get met with failure after failure, and we let it discourage us.

Nowadays we have created a Comfort zone on a bank somewhere in that Swamp. We set up a camp there…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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