How To Really Accomplish Your Goals and Fight Resistance (Side Hustle Series Part 3)

This is the last installment in our series on side hustles. In the first post, we talked about some things you need to consider before you begin your side hustle. Next, we talked about turning your side job into your full-time job or business.  So to round out the series, I thought we should discuss a thread that runs through all goal accomplishment endeavors, and that thread is resistance.

Defining Resistance

We live in a hyper-productive, hyper-get-it-done culture where there are tips, tricks, life hacks and best of lists, all designed to help you accomplish your goals efficiently.  Do these tips work? Well, I haven’t tried them all, but I’d venture to say they do for the most part. So with a little bit of time and Google, it seems like we should all be able to turn any side gig into the full-time job of our dreams very easily.  But we don’t.

What stops us is resistance.

What Is Resistance

In the foreword to the book War of Art, Robert McKee explains resistance like this:

[its] that destr…