This Is What It Looks Like When It’s "Your Turn"

You've been quietly building something meaningful, potential. 

Learning in the shadows. Gathering experiences while others chased shortcuts.

Maybe it's a business you've grown step by step. 

Or ideas you've collected in journals and voice memos. 

Or expertise you've developed at a company that didn’t see your brilliance.  

For years, you've known what you're capable of creating. 

If only there was more time. 

If only execution wasn't so hard. 

If only you could bridge the gap between your vision and reality.

Then overnight, everything changed.

The barriers that kept your ideas trapped have vanished. 

And the execution gap that once defined your limits? Gone.

But instead of liberation, you feel something else. 

A new kind of resistance.

Because the resistance didn’t leave… It just got smarter.

The New Resistance Doesn’t Shout. It Whispers.

You don’t hear:

“You’re not ready!”
“You don’t have the resources!”
“You can’t afford to do this right!”

Now it’s quieter. Trickier.

It says:

`“Where do I even begin?”
“Will this sound like me… or like a robot?”
“Do people even care what I have to say anymore?”

When everything is possible, choosing becomes paralyzing.

AI removed the gatekeepers.

But it also removed your excuses.

And that’s scarier than we admit.

What Do You Do With All This Power?

You don’t need a bigger strategy.  You need a smaller starting point.

Here’s what I’ve found works (and what I remind myself daily):

1. Pick one idea and ride it till it breaks.
   Not five. Not fifteen.
   Just one that feels alive. Explore it. Shape it. Let it lead you.
   

2. Use AI like a thought partner, not a ghostwriter.
   Ask it to help you think, not just produce.
   Let it interview you. Test your voice. Push your edges.
   

3. Assume someone needs to hear it.
   Because if you needed to say it, someone out there is waiting for it.

Lisa came to me frustrated. She had years of brilliance stored in notebooks and voice memos.

Books. Courses. Ideas that never launched.

Now she can create content fast—but she still gets stuck wondering which idea is “right?”

So she picked one. Built it messy. Launched it quietly.

That momentum cracked the dam, then it burst. 

She now has a thriving online business helping customers and has created a movement with her message. 

And she quit her job as a bank executive and works from home as she builds her business while enjoying her life.

This Is What Creative Power Feels Like

Not clean.
Not certain.
But electric.

You have the experience.
You have the vision.
Now you have the leverage.

Start before you believe it’s the perfect move.
Talk before you know exactly how it will land.

Use the tools to lower the volume on fear, not your voice.

It’s your turn.

And the world’s never been more ready to hear from someone like you.

3 Ways to Break Through Creative Resistance When AI Gives You Too Many Options

In the old world, resistance looked like bottlenecks and barriers.
Now it shows up as noise, doubt, and paralysis.

Here’s how to break through it—and get back to creating like the leader you are.

1. Shrink the Idea. Don’t Scale It Yet.

That big idea in your head?
The book. The course. The new brand.

It’s too heavy to carry forward when you’re overwhelmed.

So break it down.

Ask AI to help you outline just the first piece.
The intro. The tagline. The first email.
Something you can finish today—not strategize for six months.

AI prompt:

“I have a course idea about [TOPIC]. Help me shape just the first 3 lessons with punchy names and a few bullet points.”

When you make the idea smaller, you make it moveable.

2. Use AI to Have the Conversation You’re Avoiding

Resistance thrives in isolation.
And most of the time, we’re just stuck in our own head.

Use AI as a thinking partner—not a machine.
Let it challenge you. Pull stories out of you. Make you choose.

AI prompt:

“Act like my creative partner. Ask me 5 questions that will help me clarify my message for [AUDIENCE].”

Let it stir something. Then follow the energy, not the doubt.

3. Choose to Be Seen (Before You Feel Ready)

That voice that says “will this feel like me?”
Or “what if people think it’s just AI content?”

That’s the old fear—disguised as quality control.

You stay invisible waiting to feel confident.
But confidence only comes from being seen, not before.

So test it.

Write the post.
Record the riff.
Send the message.

And if AI helped shape it?
Great. You still pressed send.

Action prompt:

Take something you’ve been working on. Ask AI:

“How can I say this in a way that sounds like me—more human, more direct, less robotic?”

Or read my previous article: The 2,500-Year-Old Secret to Breathing Life Into AI-Generated Content 

Then publish it. Imperfect. Honest. Alive.

Here’s the Truth:

You’ve fought harder battles than this.
You didn’t build your business by staying stuck.

Now you’ve got speed on your side.

What you really need is movement.

Small. Real. Now.

Because resistance can’t survive momentum.

And you?

You were made to move.

P.S. This entire article is advice to my younger and current self.

Regardless of any success I’ve had in life, I still face the dragon of resistance. It’s even worse when I have so many ideas that want to jump out of my head and into the real world and I can’t do them all… I can’t be everything I want to be.

Often I’ve hid behind client work, building or buying businesses and running things behind the scenes, but rarely putting my real work out there for others to read.

My frist attempt at this was starting my podcast in 2014: Bacon Wrapped Business with Brad Costanzo but all I did was interview others. I never really put ME in front.

Accelerated Intelligence is me practicing what I preach.

And while I’m speaking to YOU in every post, I’m really speaking to me.

P.P.S. Here’s a few books that go deeper on this theme and have inspired aspects of this message to you.

• The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield

• Turning Pro by Stephen Pressfield

• What To Do When It’s Your Turn (And It’s Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin (Obviously this is the book that inspired my title)