Fighting Resistance - Part 2

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Last week we started off our discussion of resistance - a term that I got from Steven Pressfield's book, the War of Art.

While there are parts of the book that aren't that ADHD friendly, I do like this idea of resistance. And basically resistance is what is keeping us from doing our work. It's procrastination, rationalizations, comparison, perfectionism, and everything else that keeps us from working all rolled into one idea. It is the embodiment of the "I don't wanna's

In part one I talked about some of the ways resistance keeps us from starting, how comparing ourselves to others slows us down, and what we crave and what we need to grow don't always match.

Today we're going to keep exploring the idea of resistance. We'll be looking at ways we can work on overcoming resistance by planning, setting our intentions, and even calling in a little help.

You can find the show notes at HackingYourADHD.com/resistancepart2

This Episode's Top Tips

Our first step in fighting resistance is accepting that we are always going to be facing resistance. Resistance wants us to believe it doesn't exist because when we don't believe we don't do anything to stop it.
Planning is a critical part of overcoming resistance. Without a plan, it is easy for us to get off track and not even realize it.
When we're creating our plan it also important to break down our tasks into their component parts so that we are able to clearly state our intentions when we start our work.
We don't have to fight resistance alone, by enlisting the help of our accountabilibuddies we can get clear on our intentions and help strengthen our resilience in fighting resistance.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:09.3	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.0	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with
0:17.8	your ADHD brain.
0:20.3	Last week we started off our discussion of resistance, a term that I got from Stephen
0:24.2	Pressfield's book, The War of Art.
0:26.5	While there are parts of the book that aren't that ADHD friendly, I do like the idea of
0:30.5	resistance.
0:31.6	Basically, resistance is what keeps us from doing our work.
0:34.7	It's procrastination, rationalizations, comparisons, perfectionism,
0:38.8	and everything else that keeps us from working all rolled into one idea. It's the embodiment
0:43.7	of the I don't want us. In part one of fighting resistance, I talked about some of the ways
0:48.6	resistance keeps us from starting, how comparing ourselves to others slows us down, and what
0:53.0	we crave and what we need don't always match up.
0:56.0	Today, we're going to keep on exploring this idea of resistance.
0:58.9	We'll be looking at ways we can work on overcoming resistance by planning, setting our intentions, and even calling in a little help.
1:05.5	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash resistance part two.
1:13.4	And that's the numeral two there.
1:16.0	All right, keep on listening to find out what you can do to keep on fighting the good fight.
1:20.5	Against resistance, that is.
1:33.1	The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
1:37.2	Our first step in fighting resistance is acknowledging that it exists.
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