Is there something you want badly? Focus on EASE—not easy
Wouldn’t it be great if just as you were starting to get restless in your role at work, your boss called you into her office and offered you a super-challenging role with double the pay and half the hours? Or if the day after your divorce was final, your perfect life partner—who loves you for who you really are and finds your emotional baggage completely appealing—just walked into your life? Wouldn’t life be easy? Easy does happen, and we can all think of a few people who have had something seemingly magical occur just when they needed it most, without any action on their part. But easy is the exception, not the rule.
Focus instead on ease.
Ease is where you are committed to work and effort, but not in an arduous, grueling way, and not a genie in a bottle either. Ease is knowing that while you may get a lucky break occasionally, for the most part you have to take the steps necessary to accomplish important things such as a career search or a big life change. Easy is impatient—ease knows things may take time.
Sometimes we are so focused on the Hollywood version of life change that we reject the necessity of consistent effort and application of our best skills and hard work. This is not to say that finding a new career or spouse, or getting that new business to turn a profit, has to be hard, hard, hard—because it does not. But your mindset is a critical component to your success. Waiting for easy-peasy might make you miss out on opportunities to act on your own behalf and make self-improvements necessary to propel your life in a positive, forward direction.
