When I attended the most recent Duct Tape Marketing Consultant’s annual gathering, one of the items in my gift bag was a small book – Do The Work! Overcome Resistance and get out of your own way, by Steven Pressfield. At just under 100 pages, this is one of those books that you can read quickly, but you will want to read more than once because it is packed full of great advice.
I believe the subtitle of the book says it all; we can all achieve our goals, we just need to recognize and overcome resistance and get out of our own way.
The book follows the path you would take from starting a project to completing and delivering it. Just like your project, the book contains three sections- beginning, middle, and the end. Pressfield points out all of the predictable resistance points that you are likely to encounter along the way.
One of my favorite parts of the book is the poem on the back cover:
A child has no trouble
believing the unbelievable,
nor does the genius
or the madman.
It’s only you and I,
with our big brains
and our tiny hearts,
who doubt and overthink
and hesitate.
If you want to stop thinking about what you could have done and start accomplishing more, push aside that big brain of yours, go buy this book, and put the wisdom inside of it to work.
