It’s hard to force yourself to do something you really don’t care about, or aren’t very good at, or actively dislike, even it’s something you need to do in order to get to where you want to go. You resist the task, avoid it, put it off as long as you can. You fight it. And yet, that task just looms over you, bigger and scarier. It doesn’t go away.

After all, you can’t resist something, or fight something, without focusing your attention on it. And as soon as you do that, you make it seem bigger, harder, scarier than it really its.

Instead of resisting or avoiding whatever it is, try surrendering to it. You’re going to have to do it sooner or later. Why not now?

I challenge you, this week, to tackle one scary task that you’ve been resisting or putting off or avoiding. And I’ll bet you that it won’t be nearly as bad you as fear - and that you’ll feel a hundred times better for having gotten it done.

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