Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. […] Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venue? Then you know what Resistance is.Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North—meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Steven Pressfield — The War of Art