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RESISTANCE is the ENEMY - No One is Waiting on YOU! - #SundaySermon 018

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Peter Saddington's "RESISTANCE is the ENEMY" explores the internal obstacles preventing individuals from pursuing their goals, highlighting the notion that "no one is waiting on you." He emphasizes the concept of resistance as the primary enemy, a force that manifests in various forms, such as procrastination, analysis paralysis, fear, and anxiety. Saddington draws on his experiences building startups to illustrate how resistance emerges when one attempts anything new, be it creative endeavors, entrepreneurial pursuits, or personal improvements. He urges viewers to recognize that resistance, an unseen and intangible entity, is a distraction, a "time bandit." Furthermore, the discussion touches upon how perceptions of resistance have shifted, moving from external attributions to recognizing it as an internal battle.

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This gives us a fantastic opportunity. Discert responsibility. Discert accountability. No, no, it's not my fault. It's exes fault. It's wise fault. It's society's fault. It's Trump's fault. It's Barack Obama's fault. It's the education's fault. It's my car's fault. It's my skin color's fault. But what has happened? What? Don't assume my gender grilling with guns. Don't assume my gender. If you assume my gender, I might have to to to to to to to ban you. I've built many startups, most of them the fail. So Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be. We're gonna end it right there. And a couple of little tidbits of knowledge of knowledge now and again. So let's just jump right in. The title of today's Sunday sermon with the Doge Lord, guys. The title of today's Sunday sermon with the Doge Lord. You guys know what it is.

No one's waiting on you. No one's waiting on you. That's the title of today's sermon. I think it's self-explanatory, but I want to go through some of the facets that I have emergently discovered. I have emergently discovered through building startups and through going through the suck and the grind, you know, to make to make this happen. The inspiration for this particular idea was was born out of some notes. I was taking from from my trip out in California. It's last week. And as you can probably imagine, I stood in a fuck ton of lines having all those flights back and forth Atlanta to to LA LA, San Francisco, San Francisco LA, LA San Diego, San Diego LA, San Francisco, San Francisco LA, LA Atlanta man. It was crazy. I stood in, I got to observe the patterns of the lines. So I spent a lot

of time waiting. I spent a lot of time in these lines. And that was essentially the inspiration for this particular idea today. Waiting can be defined as being inactive. It's essentially what you could say. Waiting is, is being inactive. But I think we need to, I think we need to dive a little bit deeper in the heart of the matter. Is why do we wait? And what is the force? What is the force that creates us or puts us in a position of waiting? Now we can look, waiting can be considered in multiple vantage points. We can look at waiting as merely functional, objective, function that you do. But we can also see waiting through a multiplicity of lenses, like procrastination, like being too quick, jumping the gun. We can look at this idea of waiting from different vantage points with different contexts. And I

think for many of us, waiting is less of a pre-funtary thing that we do in the world. Obviously, in many ways, I don't think we give much thought to the waiting that we do. We're at Publix where shopping is a pleasure or a croaker or Walmart, or even richer, you'd go to Tarje. Because you wouldn't go to Target, but you'd go to Tarje. I don't think we think about the pre-funtary waiting that we do within these systems. I think we're waiting, I think we're waiting spends most of its time in our lives, is in the negative context. Procrastination, analysis paralysis, fear, anxiety, mistrust, distrust. These, I think, truly, as I begin to think about it, I think these truly are the enemies that we face, that create the function of waiting in the negative context, which you could call anything. Procrastination, analysis paralysis, fear, all

think about the pre-funtary waiting that we do within these systems. I think we're waiting, I think we're waiting spends most of its time in our lives, is in the negative context. Procrastination, analysis paralysis, fear, anxiety, mistrust, distrust. These, I think, truly, as I begin to think about it, I think these truly are the enemies that we face, that create the function of waiting in the negative context, which you could call anything. Procrastination, analysis paralysis, fear, all that stuff. The function is that we wait, but the deep-received issue, I think, is what we need to address. And when, what creates this waiting? Now, Trillimini, what's great about these Sunday's services, I can interact with you guys. And so, Trillimini says, I see waiting in the positive, faith on manifesting thoughts. I understand where you're coming from. I understand where you're coming from, but I think if

I were to take the context Trillimini, of what you've just said, which is I see waiting in the positive, faith on manifesting thoughts. Faith is a spiritual term, my friend, and I'm going to leave it there. But I think based on this spiritual term that you used using the word faith, I think if we were to take a deeper look into how faith was manifested, through many of the religious texts out there, faith was manifested not by waiting. Faith was manifested through action. Consider that. But I think what creates this function of waiting is an idea around resistance. That's really what we struggle with. So if you're sitting down and you're listening tonight, now's the time to wake up. It's resistance. Resistance is the enemy. And resistance reveals itself. Resistance reveals itself at every angle of life. If you have a desire of your heart

to write or paint or do music or some sort of creative endeavor, if you're starting doing a new entrepreneurial enterprise, if you want to start a new startup or a new idea or a new company, whether you're going on a diet, whether you're trying to lose weight, whether you're trying to speak a faith, whether you're trying to improve some sort of your spirituality, any type of endeavor, anything that you endeavor on has this idea that emerges out of nowhere. It's this idea of resistance. It's always come. It's this invisible entity. It's this evil that we struggle with. I think resistance will come every time. Every single time. I think resistance will always come every single time. When we act or we desire to act, that comes from a higher nature, higher purpose. I think that's when resistance comes. Now what is this resistance? It's invisible.

It is unseen. It cannot be. It can't be touched. Or smelled or tasted. Well, it can actually be felt. It is within this context. It is completely negative. It is that element, this resistance in your life. It's that element that distracts you. It's your time bandit. What's that? I have mine. What's up, Manny? I hear you. Whoever you are. Mute. I have my time bandits. It could be anything. It could be too much even of a good thing. I think what we've seen, or at least I've seen, within the context of my life. I don't see everything. But I think what I've seen, so let's just leave it at me. But what I have seen, my friends, over the period of my short life on this earth, is that we have moved from a perception, an idea of resistance that it comes from outside ourselves.

be anything. It could be too much even of a good thing. I think what we've seen, or at least I've seen, within the context of my life. I don't see everything. But I think what I've seen, so let's just leave it at me. But what I have seen, my friends, over the period of my short life on this earth, is that we have moved from a perception, an idea of resistance that it comes from outside ourselves. Let that sink in. I think the older generations, not obviously I wasn't there, so I can't speak intelligently about how the social systems of the time, and the media influences of the time. But based on what I think I know, about the older generation, and I've had the benefit of being able to have some pretty, pretty powerful talks with my grandparents before they died. And you know,

let's go on tangent there for a second. If you got some old people, so both my grandparents are dead. But I'll tell you, some of the most powerful conversations that I have ever had is with my grandmom, my grandpa, my Harabogi, Harabogh, you know, Hamani, because they know some shit. They might not be with bang with the tech. I'll tell you guys. But I'll tell you, there's something wonderful about the stories of old. I'll tell you one of the most, almost powerful conversations that I've, that I've had in the last five years before my grandmother passed, was I was traveling, you guys remember seeing my schedule. I was traveling two cities a week, many years. And I would always make time with, whenever I'm up northeast to see my, my Jima, my, Hamani. But anyway, some of the most, the best conversations were with my

grandmother when I visited her up north. I'd ask her questions about what, what, what was it like then? What is this now? What has changed about X? What has changed about Y? These were some of the most fascinating conversations I've ever had. Because it gives you an insight to a world that you'll never experience. And yes, it's one piece of anecdotal evidence. But it's a fascinating one at that. And trust me, when you're old, you love telling stories. You guys know how many fucking great stories I'm going to be having, when I'm an old, Hadovaulji Doge Lord. Don't man, the stories I'm going to be telling my grandkids guys. Man, I hope I remember, I hope I remember your names. Be like, yo man, back to the fucking day. Back with, back when there was Michelle Meow. Ha, ha, ha. All right, let's get back

to it. So what was the point of all that? The point of all that is that my experience, my perceived understanding of the old world, the old guard, the traditional way of life, is they took a lot more personal responsibility over their lives. And what I've seen, or at least I, my within my realm of perception of society, and how societies changed, is that we have moved to believing that the issue is outside ourselves, and that resistance comes from outside ourselves. And this gives us a fantastic opportunity to blame. This gives us a fantastic opportunity to dismiss. This gives us a fantastic opportunity, to skirt responsibility, to skirt accountability. No, no, it's not my fault. It's exes fault. It's wise fault. It's society's fault. It's Trump's fault. It's Barack Obama's fault. It's the education's fault. It's my car's fault. It's my skin color's fault. But

to believing that the issue is outside ourselves, and that resistance comes from outside ourselves. And this gives us a fantastic opportunity to blame. This gives us a fantastic opportunity to dismiss. This gives us a fantastic opportunity, to skirt responsibility, to skirt accountability. No, no, it's not my fault. It's exes fault. It's wise fault. It's society's fault. It's Trump's fault. It's Barack Obama's fault. It's the education's fault. It's my car's fault. It's my skin color's fault. But what has happened? What is it? Don't assume my gender grilling with guns. Don't assume my gender. If you assume my gender, I might have to ban you. Trigger. And so we've moved to this, this, this, this, the issues outside ourselves. No, no, no, no, no, my friends, let's get back on track. No, resistance. Resistance is not a, we were talking about this the other day. Resistance is

not a peripheral entity. Resistance is not a peripheral entity. Resistance is from within. Let's take personal responsibility for the resistance in our lives, in the waiting that it creates, the procrastination that it creates, the inaction it creates, the, the analysis paralysis that it creates. Resistance comes from within my friends. It is your fault. It is 100% my fault. Every stinking time. And I acknowledge this. I'm not, I'm not under any illusion that this is, this is anybody's fault but mine. I'm not, I'm not faking anybody out. And trust me, you're not faking anybody out either. You ain't faking anybody out. Resistance, resistance arises from within. It is self-generated. You created. It's self-perpetuated. You're the one that keeps it going. I'm the one that keeps it going. Resistance is not a peripheral entity, my friends. Own it. Resistance comes from within. And resistance is insidious. It

is toxic. I know. Guys, I know. I fight every faking day. I fight every faking day. I fight every faking day. I fight every faking day. And, and, and, and, and you guys every time I get into this mode, which is pretty much any time you guys give me an opportunity to just do this stuff. Is I always sound like a complaining about it? No, I want you to know that I'm, I'm, I'm real. I'm the same as you guys. I have the same flaws. I have the same fuck ups. I'm imperfect in every bloody way. I'm just like you. And so, so, when I tell you that I don't want to do this, it's coming from the heart. Guys, I, I, let me tell you, I want the desire of my heart. The design, the deepest desire of my heart is to, to, to,

to, to let every faking person I know. You guys remember that stream when my hair, my hairdresser from supercuts, I guess I get these cheap ass haircuts. Guys, remember she joined the stream? Guys, please believe. I talked to everybody about that big coin. I don't care who you are. That's the desire of my heart. That's what I want to do. And I'm, I am so lucky to be able to build stuff that can help me do that. But you know what I don't want to do? I don't want to wake up early every morning. And I certainly don't want to stay up all f**king night. And yet, it doesn't sound like I'm complaining absolutely. I'm not, but please believe. I'm not complaining. I'm telling you. This is, this is from the heart, man. I don't f**king want to do it. Resistance will tell you anything

be able to build stuff that can help me do that. But you know what I don't want to do? I don't want to wake up early every morning. And I certainly don't want to stay up all f**king night. And yet, it doesn't sound like I'm complaining absolutely. I'm not, but please believe. I'm not complaining. I'm telling you. This is, this is from the heart, man. I don't f**king want to do it. Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. Resistance is the ultimate deceiver. It will fabricate and falsify. It will bully you. It will embarrass you. It will cajole you. It will seduce you to an action. That's what resistance is. It's self-generated fabrication. It's self-generated lies. It's a terrorist, and it's very, very, very... It's gone scientific for a second. Resistance is like a proto-ion. It's like a proto-ion. There's

still many forms. For those there in your heartstone. It's a faceless manipulator. It'll take any form. It will give you the best reasons. And then after Dr. Scientist, it will immediately become Dr. Mr. Lawyer. And then the next day, the next day, it'll bully you. Like a twelfth grader bully and an ninth grader on the playground. Or whatever, do they have playgrounds in a fucking high school? Whatever. Resistance will take any form, my friends. Resistance will be anything that you... that it wants to be. Resistance doesn't have a conscience. Resistance doesn't give a shit about you. And I honestly, this all the time, most things in this world... let's be honest, guys. Most things in this world, they don't give a shit about you. It's just you. If you're blessed, you have a family. And if you're even more blessed, you might even have a

couple doges. And as your extended family dies, and even the ones that you didn't really give a shit about anyway, at the end of the day, it's just you, brother. It's just you, sister. The resistance is from within. It will pledge anything to get a deal out of you. It will say anything. It will say anything to get you to not do what you need to do. This is the enemy. The enemy is resistance. And so, as we continue to discuss this idea, I want you to think, what is your resistance? What are you conjuring up? No, no, please, please. We have the entire spectrum of individuals within this stream. There are some of you guys who are very satisfied. I'm very happy with your lives. I'm very happy that you're happy. I'm very happy that you're happy. We have other people in this spectrum.

The other people in this spectrum are completely dissatisfied with the lives and the way that it's going. And the tide of the bullshit, the tide of the nonsense, the tide of the inaction. And so, wherever you are on this spectrum, for those on the, the, my life is awesome and it cannot be changed. It's the best shoot since sliced bread. Then you just sit back and enjoy the show. But for anyone else within that spectrum, essentially, you're something to do. You have some retrospecting to do. If you want to change anything, let me, let me, we talked about, we talked about a lot of this. Let me remind you, if you are endeavoring on any type of art, whether you're painting or music or something creative art, let's put it that way. Any type of startup, any type of new business. Or if you're trying

the show. But for anyone else within that spectrum, essentially, you're something to do. You have some retrospecting to do. If you want to change anything, let me, let me, we talked about, we talked about a lot of this. Let me remind you, if you are endeavoring on any type of art, whether you're painting or music or something creative art, let's put it that way. Any type of startup, any type of new business. Or if you're trying to lose weight, or maybe you're just trying to have a healthier lifestyle. What about the faith, spiritual? What about an addiction? What about a happy, what about a bad habit? What about a moral or ethical conundrum that you're dealing with now? I think I pretty much covered the gamut there. So if any of you guys have any of that, consider what is the resistance that comes from

within? That creates the weight and that creates the inaction. But it is all in any endeavor. Any endeavor, I think, one of the biggest pieces of resistance that you will find is the fear of the unknown. But let's be intellectually honest. Everything that you do every day is within the realm of the unknown. You don't know what variables are going to happen. You don't know how that car is going to cut you off today. You don't know how your coworker is going to say some shit today. You don't know how your boss is going to throw you under the bus. You don't know how that food is going to get spilled on your, a spill on your tire, your blouse at lunch. You don't know how you're going to miss that meaning at 2.30. You don't know that you're going to get back stuck back

in traffic and then have, forget that you needed to pick up fucking milk from the grocery store. You have no idea what's going to happen each and every day. And so I wrestle with that. There's as many, it moves me to an action. I'd rather do nothing sometimes than address the unknown. Then address that which is not clearly manifested right in front of me. So how do we deal with resistance? Well, I hope that you guys went through B90X. So there's a good end of every sermon guys that you go through B90X. But there's lots of parts in the B90X about going pro. Setting goals, having accountability, having conversations with others. Being intentional. See you Raven. Being intentional. And that's one of the things that I would love to see. I would love to see within this community that we have on Discord and the

Bitcoin Pub. Is that you will never improve. You will never succeed. You will never get to that mile marker. You will never get to that milestone. You will never get to the end line, the goal, mind, the finish line. You will never get to where you need to go. Or where you really need to go. Or you really want to go. If you are not intentional. And none of the ideas that you have are that good. Frankly, most of my ideas are complete shite until I smash them up against other people. Until I ask my brother about the idea. My brother could tell you, I'm thinking of ideas all the time. Sometimes he said, Peter, that is the next thing to dog shit that you just told me. Why did you waste fucking seven and a half minutes of my time? And you don't think

none of the ideas that you have are that good. Frankly, most of my ideas are complete shite until I smash them up against other people. Until I ask my brother about the idea. My brother could tell you, I'm thinking of ideas all the time. Sometimes he said, Peter, that is the next thing to dog shit that you just told me. Why did you waste fucking seven and a half minutes of my time? And you don't think John doesn't say that shit. He literally does. Because I will go on and on and on about this great idea that I think we should run an experiment on. And he'll say, Peter, Peter, it's been seven and a half minutes. It's time to fucking, what is this? But sometimes. Sometimes. I'll even impress eight bit. He'll say, damn, that was a really good idea. Actually, if we did

like this. Now we're cooking with fire guys. Now we're cooking with gasoline. So let's round it out. No one's waiting on you. Nobody is waiting on you. You is the only you who's waiting on you. No one's waiting on you. No one cares about what you want to do. You is the only one waiting on yourself. And waiting comes. It's a function that comes because of resistance in your life. So engage. Be intentional. Your ideas aren't that good. You don't have everything right. Be intentional. And you say, Peter, you keep saying that. What does that mean? Use the pub. Use discord. No one knows who you really aren't anyway. Use the resources that we have. I see all these people in this chat. You got a problem. You got resistance. You got resistance. Good. Welcome to the fucking show. Use use use discord. Say guys,

you know what? I have an idea. Here it is. People will respond. People might say, well, that's okay. They might say, yeah, that's a great idea. They're just saying that because they've been behaviorally programmed. That within a text medium to say that's a great idea. Even though they don't think it's a great idea. So when you say, hey, this is what I'm thinking about. And the first three responses you get is, hey, that's a great idea. It's not a great idea. Your idea sucks ass. So be intentional. Say, okay. Why? Oh, now you're being intentional. But that's what you have to do. You have to ask questions. We have a community now. Guess what? You want to lose weight? Good. You're a fucking fat. You know it. You know you're unhealthy. Good. Hit it up on the pub. Hit it up on discord. Say, you

know what? I'm fat as fuck. And I need to get my shit together. And you know what? I don't want to get into disparage talk. And I don't want to go through, you know, the hurt locker on myself. And I don't want to make myself feel depressed. And I'm just going to throw it up there. You know what? I'm fat as fuck and I need to do something about it. Good. You know what? Someone else in here might DM you and say, wow, you know, I got this new thing that I'm going through. Let's do it together. I don't know. I'm making shit up. You might see. It doesn't matter. We have a community of people that if you're intentional with and merely ask the question, you might have to ask it. Guess what? You might have to ask it 20 times. Oh, oh, oh.

something about it. Good. You know what? Someone else in here might DM you and say, wow, you know, I got this new thing that I'm going through. Let's do it together. I don't know. I'm making shit up. You might see. It doesn't matter. We have a community of people that if you're intentional with and merely ask the question, you might have to ask it. Guess what? You might have to ask it 20 times. Oh, oh, oh. You asked the question on the pub and you didn't get a response? I'm sorry. But it ain't my fault. Maybe you should have written some more context. Maybe you should have written a post that people would be naturally inclined to read. Maybe you should brush up on that ingrish. Oh, you try to engage in discord. At 10 a.m. in the morning and no one answered your question?

I'm sorry. Maybe people aren't fucking answering questions at 10 o'clock in the morning. But don't DM me and tell me that Peter no one's responding to my question. What am I supposed to do? Motherfucker? Put it out on blast and let everyone know that your particular question needs a detailed response. Like right now? But they ain't nobody got time for that. Remember, guys, this comes from a heart of love. A heart of love is very simple. If you want a new life, if you want to do something new, you want to try something new, you want to change your life, you want to lose weight, you want to try a new enterprise, you want to try new creative art, you want to try jumping off the cliff, you want to go explore the unknown. Whatever, whatever you want to do, your ideas aren't perfect. Your

ideas aren't great, my ideas aren't great. You have to smash them up against other people. And so what's the answer? Here you go. The TLDR of this entire sermon, which by the way went overtime. When you face resistance, you must engage. When you face resistance, you must engage. And I'm trying to go, by example. I don't get good sleep. I'm not as good of a time boxer as you guys believe me to be. I struggle with perfection because it moves me into an area of analysis paralysis where I'd rather not do anything at all. You know, I struggle with these things. These are things that I think I will continue to struggle with. And so understand that. Now that you understand more about me, you can empathize with me. And I can empathize with you if you share with me. But resistance, I think resistance

in many ways will always be the battle. Manifestation is merely the waiting. And trust me, guys. Ain't nobody waiting for you. Ain't nobody waiting for me. Trust me. There's no one in the world waiting for me. Or maybe you guys, because you guys need yen. So that's maybe not necessarily true. Just kidding. You don't even know if yen's that good. It is. I don't know if you guys need to know this. And I can empathize with you guys. And trust me. And trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. guys need to know this. And I can empathize with you guys. And trust me. And trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me.

About the Creator

This video is part of a library of 780+ episodes published by Peter Saddington on staas.fund. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist (StaaS Fund, RegD 506B), and AI practitioner who has trained 17,000+ professionals in agile and AI methodologies. He bought Bitcoin at $2.52 in 2011, built 4 autonomous AI agents (the Council of Dogelord), and operates 10+ websites with zero employees. His AI Workshop has been attended by Fortune 500 teams, and his newsletter "The Agile VC" reaches thousands of subscribers weekly. Peter holds 3 Master's degrees (Divinity, Computer Science, Computational Operations Research) from institutions including Georgia Tech.

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