You're Already Doing Something Hard. It's Just the Wrong Hard.
So, choose the hard that pays you back
There’s a change you know you need to make.
You’ve known it for years.
Maybe it’s the job. Maybe it’s your health.
Maybe it’s a relationship or a financial situation.
You haven’t done anything about it, and so you keep asking yourself the same question:
Why can’t I just do something about this?
You’re already doing something hard
My parents’ generation called it kicking the can down the road.
We all do it.
It’s called resistance to change.
Our brains are wired for it; a defensive mechanism from a few hundred thousand years of evolution.
Then there’s fear of failure. Fear of not knowing what to do. Fear of looking foolish.
But underneath it all is something simpler.
You’re avoiding something that’s going to be hard.
You’re already doing something hard
Living with poor health, you’re doing nothing about. That’s hard.
Living with the financial mess you haven’t cleaned up. That’s hard.
Living a life you know is wrong for you. That can be the hardest of all.
By doing nothing, you’re not escaping the hard.
You picked the hard with no payoff.
So instead, choose the hard that has a return on your investment of time and energy.
That’s the solution.
If you read nothing else this week, take that one thought with you.
Your solutions in practice
In this week’s video, I walk through the three small moves that made a huge difference in advancing my life, my health, and so many other “hard” things.
I include a 10-minute practice (morning and night) that activates a part of your brain most people never use on purpose.
And the “one little thing” test that had me building real success habits inside of a week without any willpower.
I also share the #1 regret of people at the end of their lives.
It shocked and scared the hell out of me.
It’s not money. It’s not time with family.
It’s something more specific than that.
When I pictured myself saying those words of regret on my own deathbed, the fear of that motivated the hell out of me to choose the “hard” path of positive change.
It’s a very simple way of looking at things.
No more kicking the can down the road.
I got my return on investment by doing something that was hard.
Now I am reaping the rewards and you will too.