I feel plenty of resistance when I commit to composing my music on a regular schedule. Resistance can manifest in many ways. For example, my air conditioning unit stopped working last week and I was miserable. Still, I sat in my hot office with the computer on and wrote for an hour like I promised to do. It wasn’t easy though. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that I knew that I couldn’t show weakness or else my routine might be ruined. I didn’t want to have to rebuild the mental toughness that I had created, so I fought like hell.

I experience resistance frequently when it comes to using my music studio. It’s usually a software glitch or some kind of limitation I find in the software which sends me on an internet search to find a solution. I’m used to resistance attempting to beat me down everyday. I used to let it win, everyday. There was a period of time (years actually) in which I did nothing towards my music. I was in mental pain every day because I wasn’t writing.

I would rather experience the minor upsets that resistance throws my way, than to go through the mental pain I felt when I wasn’t writing. So, if you ever feel that resistence is trying to distract you, fight it. Even if you can only write 10 minutes a day, or remix a part of your song or rewrite your lyrics, etc., do it because it’s the symbolic action that eventually beats resistance and creates success.

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