The Easy Thing About Hard Things

Apr 17, 2017

Tell Me You Don’t Already Know The Answer To This . . .

By chris danilo on Apr 10, 2017 06:00 am

We almost always know the answer already. The trouble is that we’re looking for someone to give us permission.

We don’t need a new fancy diet. We know what’s good for us and what’s garbage. Eat less, exercise more.

We don’t need a fancy new software app. We know what work we’re avoiding. Do the scary stuff first, push everything else aside.

We don’t need a professional life-coach. We know what’s right in our hearts. Care more, complain less, solve problems that help people.

The trouble is that caring more means we get hurt by careless people.

Complaining less means doing the emotional work of reframing frustration as gratitude.

Solving problems that help people means we have to deliberately look inside ourselves–which is can be terrifying.

It’s up to you whether you want to feel the hurt of being yourself or the hurt of never being you.

It’s up to you if you want to endure the temporary pain of vulnerability or the sustained suffering of self-denial.

The thing we often know and often forget is that we’re going to habituate to whichever pain we choose.

To which pain would you rather be immune?

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