Easy choices make life hard and hard choices make life easy.
Choosing the easy
We can absolutely choose to lay in bed all day.
We can choose to do the bare minimum and just get by.
We can chose to do the easy stuff.
These are all legit choices and they are made everyday by people just like you and I.
Ever meet someone who refuses to eat healthy? No matter what, they always go for the junk food. “But junk food is EASY. I can just grab and go and get filled up from it.”
The downside to this easy choice are the side effects to eating junk food everyday for a long period of time. And these side effects make life hard.
This easy choice could and most likely will affect your health, self-confidence, relationships, communication, and even commitment negatively.
By choosing the easy day after day: eating unhealthy junk food, life becomes harder in every aspect.
Choosing the hard
We can also choose to get out of bed when the alarm goes off.
We can choose to do our best and make our dreams a reality.
We can choose to do the hard stuff.
These are also legit choices and they are made everyday by people like you and I.
Ever see a real happy person, like they’re happy all the time? And maybe ya think: “Man it must be so nice to be that happy. They don’t even have to try, they’re always just THAT happy.”
Effortless happiness is a myth. It takes HARD work to be happy. It takes constant awareness: reframing negative thoughts, finding gratitude, replenishing energy, sharing good vibes with others.
The upside to this hard choice are the side effects to being happy everyday for a long period of time. And these side effects make life easy.
This hard choice could and most likely will affect your health, self-confidence, relationships, communication, and even commitment positively.
By choosing the hard day after day: to really work on being happy, life becomes easier in every aspect.
Wrapping Up
There’s an easy choice and a hard choice for every situation.
The easy choice now leads to a harder tomorrow.
The hard choice now leads to an easier tomorrow.
Let’s start to ask ourselves in as many moments as we can remember: “What’s the hard choice here that will get me to my goals? Make me happier, healthier, more fulfilled?”
It’s easy to be heavy and hard to be light.
G.K. Chesterton
