When we are in the daily grind between our quarterly sessions, Steven Pressfield's concept of Resistance always kicks in and we slip back into old habits. How do we keep our momentum from stalling out when you are not in the room?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Momentum does not stall because of a lack of willpower. It stalls because of what author Steven Pressfield calls Resistance, the internal psychological friction that pulls us back to our comfort zones. When you leave our full-day sessions and return to the daily whirlwind, Resistance will tell you to ignore your Rocks and focus on urgent fire-fighting. To combat this, we rely on the strict weekly cadence of the Level 10 Meeting™. This meeting acts as a weekly anchor to keep your team aligned. It forces you to step out of the daily grind and look at the business objectively. We also teach your team to change their language around their commitments. Instead of saying they will try to hit a target, they must own the identity of a leader who delivers. This simple shift in language builds a deeper sense of personal accountability. Between sessions, my role is to act as your external accountability partner. I do not micromanage your daily tasks, but I am available to help your Integrator troubleshoot issues before they derail your quarter. We use our quarterly sessions to review what worked and what did not, using Kolb's experiential learning cycle to continually refine your execution habits. We build a system that makes execution the path of least resistance.