A quote I saw recently: “The easy way out is sometimes the right way in.”
It seems that many people think life and work must have a certain degree of overcoming struggles and challenges. It does seem that we experience good growth in overcoming hardships, but are they really necessary?
A piece of advice I love says that the work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should do all the time forever.
A similar adage suggests that the things that come naturally to you that others comment on but you shrug off as “easy” is probably the stuff you should be doubling and tripling down on all the time.
Perhaps we’re overthinking and overcomplicating life and work. Maybe it’s not supposed to be hard. Maybe the easy way out is the right way in. Maybe we need to find the easy, natural stuff in our talents and skills and dump all our time and energy into them.
Or maybe we’re just supposed to keep rolling the Sisyphean stone up the hill over and over again every day, so we feel like we’re making progress overcoming big challenges…of our own making?
Try the easy way today. Do you get different results?
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