When we produce our art – the unique work of our lives – we experience resistance: both from without and within.  Some people won’t like your art at all – others will love it.  Yes, listen to those who don’t like it … so you can make something better for those who love it – (few of us have the energy needed to turn a critic into a fan).

Then there’s the resistance within: the doubts and fears and  tiredness and pain and …………………  (empty space: where are the ideas and possibilities?).  Producing your art never gets easy.

It’s said that it takes ten years or 10,000 hours of deep practice to master something, and each hour comes with resistance.  You produce something and it creates resistance, and the resistance defines what you will go on to produce.  The ice-skater works hard to master a particular manoeuvre – maybe a BiDs (backward inside death spiral) – and when accomplished the resistance is there again, to go further – now a BoDs (backward outside death spiral).

If you feel the resistance right now, it’s not there to stop you, but to help you go further.

The Borg might tell all species they meet that resistance is futile, but they hadn’t reckoned on Captain Jean-Luc Picard.