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# Battling Resistance
- URL: https://andys.blog/resistance/
- Published: 2025-11-01T08:59:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-01T20:36:13.000Z
- Author: Andy Trattner

October 2025 was my first full month of daily blogging since [March 2019](https://trattner.github.io/blog/?ref=andys.blog). I find doing almost anything for multiple days in a row—besides eating, sleeping, and brushing my teeth—to be a real challenge!

I don't exactly remember what compelled me to start writing, but it looks like I was originally [inspired by Seth](https://trattner.github.io/thanks-seth.html?ref=andys.blog). If I recall correctly, I might have recycled the domain name [Empanada.Life](https://trattner.github.io/la-fabrica.html?ref=andys.blog) after I gave up on starting a food truck.

I wrote at inconsistent times while driving Uber and teaching kids in St Louis. But I still managed to git push and bcc my list from gmail at some point each day.

I must have been trying for public accountability. Perhaps behavioral consistency in this one little project would help ground me...I clearly felt a need to [explore my psyche](https://trattner.github.io/stress-multitasking.html?ref=andys.blog) and push back against certain [noncommittal tendencies](https://trattner.github.io/travel.html?ref=andys.blog).

It worked back then. I crystallized a high-agency [mindset](https://trattner.github.io/migrating.html?ref=andys.blog), catalyzed [creative religiosity](https://trattner.github.io/religious-awakening.html?ref=andys.blog), and finally articulated some [life principles](https://trattner.github.io/life-goals.html?ref=andys.blog). These hold up well, and I'm grateful for the written artifacts to look back upon.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/86/cd86d82c-7ac7-4970-a6aa-07c9f50c77ba/content/images/2025/11/image.png)

The daily blogging rule is working again for me now. It helped ground me when I was tempted to [interview for a job](https://andys.blog/xai/). And along with [Abundance House](https://andys.blog/abundance-house/), it has brought certain creative blockages into focus. 

The last 3 months were a blur. In August, I was figuring out some [family issues](https://world.hey.com/tratt/a-letter-from-10-days-in-hell-ab4bc648?ref=andys.blog) and my transition [away from Shuffle](https://world.hey.com/tratt/open-letter-please-help-or-my-2-year-shuffle-versary-how-it-ends-here-b0d6971a?ref=andys.blog). September took longer than anticipated to [move](https://world.hey.com/tratt/moving-to-sf-erdos-style-d362b77e?ref=andys.blog) and settle into [SF](https://andys.blog/sf/).

October did not achieve maximal [mission](https://andytrattner.com/alignment?ref=andys.blog) progress, but this blog has set a new [baseline](https://trattner.github.io/normal.html?ref=andys.blog) for me. I see the next steps on my [personal compounding path](https://andys.blog/personal-compounding/) more clearly as a result.

Only once so far did I come close to breaking my 1:59am publication deadline. But my stated [commitment](https://world.hey.com/tratt/shipping-andys-blog-9074d961?ref=andys.blog) kept me on track, and I made it with 20 minutes to spare that day. Ideally, I have at least 2-3 posts queued in advance.

The battle continues every day—rain or shine, holiday or not. 

Here's to a great November, and beyond!

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> *"It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance...*

> *The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it...*

> *...fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day."*

– Steven Pressfield, [*The War of Art*](https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026/?ref=andys.blog)