Steven Pressfield has a blog post series every Wednesday that he calls “Writing Wednesday”.  This is not idle advice, but big time experience, a knowledge powerplant, especially this week’s post where he lays out the thesis for his seminal writing book, The War of Art. In that work he describes his nemesis, Resistance, and outlines how to overcome. In this post he describes how you fight back–with Practice.

Since I have retired my practice has changed. The classroom and teaching were my practice, but now it has become a manifestation of Harold Jarche’s personal knowledge management strategy: seek-sense-share. Every morning I make sense of my world and share it. I fill out my “Morning Check-In” daily. It is a checklist of reminders of daily, weekly, and monthly activities I am committed to. This is not Ben Franklin-style virtue signaling or hoarding. It is just a way of discerning signals from futurity. This is my practice, the practice that Pressfield writes about. Do you have a practice to stave off Resistance? Here is a deskscape of that practice in the video below

And here is a poem that is also my practice, one of the sparks spit off from this Morning Check-In

Connecting,
always connecting,
one paradise a day planted.
I am a husband and a midwife
giving birth through my mild power, awakening but not woke,
because we all know to be woke
is only once and forever open,
to be awakening is to be a wound
that must close to heal
and like eyes must be closed
to be open and aware.
So far,
so good,
so far,
so good.