You’re going to face resistance both internally from your doubts and fears and externally from people who don’t believe that you’re capable of fulfilling your duties and achieve the greatness you set out to achieve.
You can believe that doubters and never know if you can be great, or you can dare to be great and either fail and learn or achieve and see what you’re capable of.
Either way, resistance must be faced. This is the essence of most work. Work is the disturbing of that which is still. It is resistance or effort against objects at rest. If we avoid resistance, we avoid all work and all things that would give depth and meaning to our life.
We must train ourselves to get comfortable with facing the resistance from within and without. A few minutes here and a few minutes there. Practice being uncomfortable and retaining your confidence.
Examine yourself and your motivations. If you’re doing what is right with pure motives, you should have the utmost confidence in yourself. At that point, resistance is merely an inconvenience to overcome.