A Life Without Resistance

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A few thou­sand years ago, Lao Tsu, author of the Tao Te Ching, cre­ated the sym­bols that were inter­preted as:

Sim­ply notice the nat­ural order of things,
Work with it rather than against it,
For to try to change what is only sets up resistance.

Today, we sim­ply say “Go with the flow”.

When it comes to design­ing your lifestyle, once you have fig­ured out your life’s pur­pose you can begin devel­op­ing your authen­tic lifestyle, your true path. One that is based on ‘what is’ — your unique life’s pur­pose — and that offers you lit­tle resistance.

There are any num­ber of books aimed specif­i­cally at help­ing you over­come resis­tance in your life — Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Cre­ative Bat­tles is one that I highly rec­om­mend — and I encour­age you to read any that catch your eye. In fact, if you know of a book that has been use­ful in help­ing you dis­cover and fol­low your life’s pur­pose, then please send me an email with the title and author’s name — I would love to read it

In the mean­time, here is a sim­ple lit­tle exer­cise that can help give you a glimpse into your authen­tic life:

Begin by answer­ing the 10 ques­tions that were given in my ear­lier post, Find­ing Your Life’s Pur­pose. Go ahead. Answer the ques­tions. I’ll wait .….….….….….….…..

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Good. Now that you have answered those ques­tions, with­out paus­ing to think about it, answer the fol­low­ing ques­tion with the first thing that comes into your mind — don’t think about it, don’t edit it, and don’t cen­sor it:

If you knew you could not fail, and money was of no con­cern,
what would you be doing right now!!

For me: I would be stand­ing in the mid­dle of the Grand Place in Brus­sels Bel­gium. I would have just fin­ished eat­ing a Leonidas choco­late (I can still taste the choco­late, mmm­mmm) and would be tak­ing some amaz­ing pho­tographs that were going to accom­pany a travel arti­cle I was writ­ing for the Conde Nast Trav­eler Magazine.

Where would you be right now, and what would you be doing?

‘Till next time

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