Something unique happens when you name those things, feelings, thoughts, or ideas that you’re in pursuit of or that haunt you.
For instance, Steven Pressfield calls that nagging voice of distraction and disbelief the “resistance”. Now that you have a name for it and that name discloses what it does, you can now call it out push back against it.
For purposes of this blog, we’ve named the success we are all after as “our music.” By giving success the name music, we’ve opened the idea that success could be a timely collection of multiple factors that occur simultaneously. So we must gather instruments and insure they’re making music and not noise.
In creating names for these ideas and unseen realities, two things happen:
1) For the good things you’re after, now you and your tribe have something to point at.
2) For those things that haunt you, now you can call them out, silence them, and mute their plea. Caution: they hate being named.
Ashton.Gustafson 