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Resistance Is Strongest at the Finish Line
The Tricks Your Mind Plays to Prevent You From Achieving Great Things
In exactly 6 days, I’m going on a Vision Quest.
It’s four days, sitting alone in a stretch of woods that’s home to bears, mountain lions, and wolves. No food. Little water. No sleep. No flashlight. No bear spray. No coffee. No cellphone. Just me, inside a four-foot by four-foot square. I’ve wanted to do this my entire life but earlier this week, I almost backed out.
We sit for a Sweat Lodge Ceremony about every two weeks in the lead-up to the Vision Quest. This week was the last one. It had to be rescheduled two or three times because each of us “Questers” miraculously had a scheduling conflict the day before.
I reached out to the person who was in charge of the most recent reschedule and asked what date they settled on. He responded that they hadn’t set a date for the Sweat and, to be honest, he was feeling a lot of resistance to the whole Vision Quest thing. His Resistance mirrored my resistance and gave it life.
I thought maybe we could push this back another week but to my shock and horror, there was no next week. The Vision Quest was just 9 days away. My anxiety spiked and I spiraled into self-doubt.
