A person who can confidently sit down, focus, and do their work – without distraction, can do so because they “truly know” (in ever definition of the word) they will relax, let go and completely, 100%, have moments of “un-work” (read:play)

The problem is that, most people don’t operate in these two extremes. They balance work and pleasure, and never truly isolate the two.

But, to put your inner beast (called resistance) to sleep for periods, so you can truly focus on getting shit done, you have to tire it out first.

…and you tire the beast by playing full out… and exhausting it … when it’s play time.

If you live in the grey shadows; in the middle of the work/life bell curve, both your inner resistance and inner producer never get an opportunity to shine, and exhaust themselves … and are thus always battling for your time and attention.

And the winner of these battles ?

Procrastination and his side-kick distraction.

Holly Awakening Batman! 

Are you saying, I need to enjoy myself more, reward myself more and party harder to succeed? 


Yes, I think so.

When you know you’ve honestly done your work the right way, you can then shift your focus to distractions, to play, to tiring out that thing inside you that manifests itself as resistance and distraction.

… and when it’s sleeping, you can go back to doing your true work – distraction free.

Rinse and Repeat.

BUT remember; the pendulum will always (and must) swing as far in one direction, as it does it the other. 


”I wouldn’t have butter on my toast, let alone have a f … ing beer or take drugs … and I would train, and f#@%! train and obsess and play good footy; And the thing that would get me through those tough moments, those tough days, was I knew at the end of that one-week, two-week block – or sometimes even a month – I knew that I was going to absolutely annihilate myself and launch into as much drugs as I want.” – Ben Cousins; one of Australia’s greatest footballers.

Unfortunately, yet now understandably, it’s this principle¹, that has lead to the most successful people in most fields having some of the more extreme scandals of recent time.

Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Michael Rooney, Shane Warne, Eliot Spitzer, Nicolas Sarkozy and as above, Ben Cousins; when it came to “doing their work”, they where the most focused, disciplined, consistent and dedicated – and they have the “on field” results to prove it.

… but in order for them to invest so much of themselves in the battle against resistance and “ship” every single time they entered the field or boardroom; they had to ride the pendulum to the other extreme.

To beat the beast that is known as resistance and distraction that lurks in the shadows, you need extreme focus … and to gain 100% pure focus, you need to reward yourself and tire out resistance with times of focused recreation – however you define it.