In war, “your real enemy is your opponent’s mind. Their armies, their resources, their intelligence, can all be overcome if you can fathom their weakness, the emotional blind spot through which you can deceive, distract, and manipulate them. The most powerful army in the world can be beaten by unhinging the mind of its leader;” from Robert Greene’s, The 33 Strategies of War.

Understand: your real enemy may be you - your resistant you.

The resistant version of yourself keeps you from doing work that matters. It says you’re not good enough, and causes you to doubt if success is on the horizon, what if you fail? Why bother?

That version of you is your enemy; and like any enemy, it has a weak spot.

Your resistant you lives off your fear. The more it causes you to fear, the more you won’t try to understand it. To beat the resistance you must face it head on with love and compassion.

Yes - you must love that version of yourself. You have to be able to say, thank you for showing up right now, I’m going to be okay. Self love and compassion are your secret weapons.

Your real enemy is not your boss, it’s not your weak, it’s not your debt, and it’s not your art. Your real enemy is your self. Show your self love and compassion.