The part of your brain that creates wants and desires

Works separately and independant from the part

That allows you to act on those desires

So you have one part of your brain

Creating wants and desires

And another part

That gives the green light to act on them

So, it's possible

For your brain

To both create a want for something

And at the same time

Keep you from going after it

That's what procrastination and sabotage are

A part of your brain

NOT giving the green light

On pursuing a want or outcome

Interestingly enough

Both parts can get in your way!

And in this guide, you'll learn how both your wants and resistance hold you back

1. Wants

Let's first start with your wants

It's hard to imagine

Many of your challenges in life

Actually come from your wants

That’s right!

Your challenge to doing what you want

Comes from the want itself

That's because...

The part of your brain that creates wants and desires

Is completely unrestrained

It’s creating wants one after another

The only job of this part of the brain

Which I call the wanting mechanism

Is to create wants

And it's cranking out endless wants and desires

Day in and day out

At a pace faster than you can achieve

You can think of your wanting mechanism

Like a simple on-off switch

It gets flipped based on certain cues

It sees a new pair of shoes, and wants it
The latest iPhone comes out, it wants that too
Someone attractive walks by, and it wants that as well

This switch creates so many wants in a single day

No one person has the time or energy to achieve in a lifetime

Even if you lived multiple lives

You couldn't achieve

Let alone enjoy

All the wants your brain’s producing

And that’s because...

Your wanting mechanism doesn’t understand

Your time, energy, and resources are limited

It simply creates wants

Nor does it check to see if your want is achievable

It simply creates wants

Even while you’re working on one want

Your mechanism will create other wants to chase

The wanting mechanism is the reason

- You buy stuff you don’t need

- Crave things that aren't fulfilling

- And why people cheat when they’re already in a relationship

It’s also the reason why it’s so hard "to do the work"

This mechanism pulls you in so many directions

It’s difficult to stick to any one

Though...

This is just ONE of challenge of your wants

There are many other challenges your wanting mechanism creates, including:

A. Conflicting Wants

This is where the brain creates two opposing desires

So, having one means giving up another

Because you don't let go of either

You achieve neither

B. Strong Wants

This where your desire is so strong

You can’t focus

On doing the things

That will help you achieve it

Since all your attention and energy is on the desire

None is available for actually working on the desire

C. Unaligned Wants

Just because your brain creates a want for something

Doesn’t mean you will enjoy it or find it fulfilling

So, you may be chasing a want

That you deep down don't find fulfilling

This is one reason for your procrastination and sabotage

The other is...

2. Resistance

As you learned

Anytime you have a want

It's analyzed by resistance

To see whether you should do it or not

Resistance analyzes many criteria's to decide if you should do it or not

I'll quickly talk about one of them

So you understand how resistance works

One reason resistance stops you from going after something is if

The task or goal opens the door to a lot of failures

I’ve traveled a lot

To over 100 countries in fact

But there was a point

When I was afraid to travel

In fact, traveling was so scary for me

I rarely traveled alone

After diving into the cause of this resistance

I realized...

My brain was processing everything that could go wrong

- What if I buy the wrong flight

- Book it for the wrong date

- Or I have to cancel and can’t get a refund

- What if I can’t make it to the airport

- Miss the flight

- Forget to pack something

Or worse

- My luggage is lost

- I’m pick pocketed

- Or the hotel isn’t nice

So...

Anytime you set out to do something

Especially something new

Your brain will process all the things that can go wrong

You don’t notice the processing happen

But it’s there

Running in the background

All you notice is the inability to do the thing

The more things that can go wrong

And the worse the outcome

The more resistance your brain will create

But instead of telling you what those things are

Your brain just creates this impenetrable wall

You can’t push through

It can feel like being paralyzed and not knowing why

Though...

This is just one cause of resistance

There are many more reasons resistance stops you, including:

A. Self-Image

Many people have a self-image

Of being cool, smart, tech savvy, and so on

But they won't apply themselves

Because if things don't go well

They will have to face the fact

That they are not as cool or smart

As they believe themselves to be

So it's easier to not do the thing and hold on to the self-image

Than to do it, and face the possibility of proving it wrong

B. Avoid Something Bigger

This is a pattern

I see a lot with inspiring authors

Many authors spend years writing a book

But they'll procrastinate on finishing it

Because finishing it will mean facing something bigger

They're avoiding

And that's feedback and criticism

They are too afraid of what people will think about their book

So it's easier to procrastinate on finishing the book now

To avoid the something bigger later

C. Authority Issues

When growing up

If the people in your life

Were always telling you:

- What to do

- What not to do

- How to do it

- How not to do it

Your brain gets fed up

And doesn't want to do anything they tell you

Even when you grow up

And want to do those things

Your brain prevents you

Just to not give the authorities in your life

The satisfaction of being right

These are some of the reasons resistance holds you back

3. Tricks of Resistance

Here's the thing...

When your resistance stops you from doing something

It doesn’t tell you

That it's stopping you

Or give a reason as to why

For example...

If self-image is the culprit

Your brain won't say

“Hey, this goal of yours, might threaten the self-image we're trying to uphold, so I can’t let you do it”

Nope...

In action manifests other ways

Your brain uses manipulative tricks

To keep you from taking action

And it has many tricks up it’s sleeves

To keep you from doing so

To understand what I mean by "tricks"

I’ll share a powerful story

Several years ago

I heard a woman in South Africa

Give a speech about her journey of addiction

She described a pattern addicts fall into

That she herself fell into

She said...

Many addicts know what they're doing is wrong

When they're searching for the next hit

A part of them knows they should stop

But a sneaky trick keeps them from stopping

They say…

After the next hit

I’ll stop

After the next one

I’ll stop.

I just need to do it one more time

But after, I’ll stop

Here is the thing…

They keep saying this

When they say it

They’re convinced it’ll only be only one more time

Absolutely convinced

They truly believe after the next one they'll stop

I bring this up

Because I know

You’re doing this in some area of your life

Anytime a reminder comes up to do something

In that moment

A voice surfaces that says

- I’ll do it later

- I’ll do it tomorrow

- I’ll do it this weekend

- I’ll do it next week

- I’ll do it next time

When you say it...

You’re convinced you’ll do it later or next time

Absolutely convinced!

But when the "later" or "next" arrives

You push it off to the next

And next

And the one after that

And you'll do it for months and years

This is one of the tricks of resistance

It makes you keep putting things off

Some people have been saying later or next their entire life

Every time they say it

They're convinced they will start later or next time

But they never do

Though...

This is just one trick of your resistance

There are many more, including:

A. Overwhelm

Have you ever procrastinated on something

That you thought was much bigger and more difficult

Than it really was

But after starting

You realized

It wasn’t so bad

Well...

That's a trick your brain uses

It makes things so overwhelming

You don't start

B. Bottle Neck

Have you ever told yourself

You'll start working out

Once you sign up for a gym membership

Then you waited months and years to sign-up?

That's another trick!

Your brain keeps you from doing something small

To create a bottle neck to the bigger actions

As long as you don't do the small thing

You can't take the bigger actions that'll lead to the result

C. Feel Superior

Have you ever had someone give you advice

But you said

"Nay, I don’t need that"

"I got this"

Or have other feelings of being "too good?"

As long as you feel too good

You don’t do the thing

As long as you don't do it

The tricks of resistance win yet again!

By now you're understanding

Just how much your brain manipulates you

I'm sure you've heard the phrase

"You are your own worst enemy

Well resistance is the enemy within that stops you ... and not just one of the time

But all the time

By now you're also asking

How do I move past resistance?

It’s not as simple as it seems

If it was, you would've discovered the answer by now

In fact...

No one is talking about resistance

All they're doing is

Stimulating your wanting mechanism with motivation and inspiration

To make buy what they're selling

The truth is

They don't want you to know about the wanting mechanism

So they can keep selling you what you don't need

Or even works

And once the motivation and inspiration wears off

You're just as stuck as you were before

The Real Reason You Procrastinate

1. Wants

2. Resistance

As you learned

Resistance analyzes many criteria's to decide if you should do it or not

I'll quickly talk about one of them

So you understand how resistance works

One reason resistance stops you from going after something is if

The task or goal opens the door to a lot of failures

I’ve traveled a lot

To over 100 countries in fact

But there was a point

In fact, traveling was so scary for me

I rarely traveled alone

After diving into the cause of this resistance

I realized...

My brain was processing everything that could go wrong

- What if I buy the wrong flight

- Book it for the wrong date

- Or I have to cancel and can’t get a refund

- What if I can’t make it to the airport

- Miss the flight

- Forget to pack something

Or worse

- My luggage is lost

- I’m pick pocketed

- Or the hotel isn’t nice

Anytime you set out to do something

Especially something new

Your brain will process all the things that can go wrong

You don’t notice the processing happen

But it’s there

Running in the background

All you notice is the inability to do the thing

The more things that can go wrong

And the worse the outcome

The more resistance your brain will create

But instead of telling you what those things are

Your brain just creates this impenetrable wall

You can’t push through

It can feel like being paralyzed and not knowing why

This is just one cause of resistance

There are many more reasons resistance stops you, including:

A. Self-Image

Many people have a self-image

Of being cool, smart, tech savvy, and so on

But they won't apply themselves

Because if things don't go well

They will have to face the fact

That they are not as cool or smart

As they believe themselves to be

B. Avoid Something Bigger

This is a pattern

I see a lot with inspiring authors

Many authors spend years writing a book

But they'll procrastinate on finishing it

Because finishing it will mean facing something bigger

They're avoiding

And that's feedback and criticism

C. Authority Issues

When growing upIf the people in your lifeWere always telling you:- What to do- What not to do- How to do it- How not to do itYour brain gets fed upAnd doesn't want to do anything they tell youEven when you grow up

And want to do those thingsYour brain prevents you

These are some of the reasons resistance holds you back

3. Tricks of Resistance

Here's the thing...

When your resistance stops you from doing something

It doesn’t tell you

That it's stopping you

Or give a reason as to why

For example...

If self-image is the culprit

Your brain won't say

“Hey, this goal of yours, might threaten the self-image we're trying to uphold, so I can’t let you do it”

Nope...

In action manifests other ways

Your brain uses manipulative tricks

To keep you from taking action

And it has many tricks up it’s sleeves

To keep you from doing so

To understand what I mean by "tricks"

When growing up

If the people in your life

Were always telling you:

- What to do

- What not to do

- How to do it

- How not to do it

Your brain gets fed up

And doesn't want to do anything they tell you

Even when you grow up

And want to do those things

Your brain prevents you