Honestly, this week has been really difficultYou don’t want easy, because easy doesn’t push you, it doesn’t test you. Honestly, this week has been really difficult and yes I’m talking about the project again! Late nights, frustration, tiredness have all taken their toll, but I’m still here I’m still going and I’m super proud of myself. Yes I know it’s super cheesy but that’s a fact, so why do we want to avoid the hard things and want an easy life Doing those difficult things makes you feel proud of yourself, it makes you feel that you’ve done something worthwhile because it’s outside your comfort zone. Yes I know it’s super cheesy but that’s a fact, so why do we want to avoid the hard things and want an easy life. I know in the back of my mind that it wants the easy life, it wants to chill out and to just be safe. Yes of course there is a time for that, I’m doing it right now writing this blog. What the hard things give you is the appreciation when things slow down a little, you start to appreciate the little things! So for me working super late for the last couple of months makes me appreciate my time when I finish a little earlier it feels like you’ve got your life back. But watch out because our minds love this and want us to stay there longer than is good for us. Let me give you an example. You’ve not been developing your skills or yourself and you find yourself out of a job, that’s what happened to me Many years ago I used to work in London, I had to catch the 6 am train, that meant I had to get up at 4:45 to get this train. Yes, I know what you’re going to say, “Joe you’re doing that now!” actually I’m now getting up at 4:30 am! Now when I secured a job close to home it was lovely to just get up at 7am and just stroll into my place of work, now that’s the danger point you can slip into that mode of things are good, there’s no need to rock the boat right? Things are going really well. Well ah no! That’s the trap, the trap of comfort, we love it and if we stay there too long this is when people just realise and say “I’ve been doing what I’ve been doing for 50 years and now what?”, or things change suddenly and you find yourself up for redundancy. You’ve not been developing your skills or yourself and you find yourself out of a job, that’s what happened to me, I took things for granted. You want to be challenged even though your brain says no.So going back to the question “Is there a time when things get easy?” the answer is you don’t want things to be easy, you want to be challenged even though your brain says no, you really want to continue to grow because you want that feeling of accomplishment, you don’t get that from a place of comfort it all comes from doing the difficult things! As the amazing Denzel Washington said, “do you have the guts to fail?”If you are in a job or business and you’re just strolling I want you to ask yourself, am I developing? Am I evolving? Is there anything in my day that scares me because it’s going to test me? If not you need to get that in your life, because you won’t grow if things are easy you need to be tested and as the amazing Denzel Washington said “do you have the guts to fail?” (I think there is a podcast episode in that!) I just love that! If you do you allow yourself to learn and grow, even if you do fail you will learn a valuable lesson and if you win, well, you win and you know how to do it again. There is always another level and beyond that another. Never be satisfied always strive to be a better version of yourself. So after all this, you don’t want things to be easy, that was never the plan! Until next time stay inspired!
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