Everything is not inherently easy or hard, but our thinking makes it so.
Let’s start with definitions:
Difficulty: needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand.
Easy – means not much effort is needed to accomplish it.
Whether something is easy or difficult, is more related to the person performing the task, than it is about the task itself.
Tasks and goals are just what they are.
Sometimes, we believe something is going to be hard, and our thinking, makes it so. We can create a struggle, and create stress, when it was completely self-created.
On the other side, we can also ask ourselves, how can this be easy? What is the easy way of doing this task? If we believe everything to be easy, it can also make it so. There are people who can help, who have done it before. There are ways we can use leverage.
“What if it were easy?”
Sometimes, doing big things, can be much easier than doing small things.
Sometimes, it’s far easier to accomplish a task, when you are 100% relaxed, take your time, and have a break.
It’s well known that sprinters, can run faster when they are at 80% effort. And the same is true for other fields.
Sometimes when we tense up, we try too hard, we repel the very thing we want so much. Like the overly keen lover, who would have been far more successful were they give give space for them to miss and feelings to grow.
We can choose to take the easy route, to take the train, or taxi, or we can choose to take the uphill climb and go there by foot.
Sometimes we want to go there by foot, it’s more scenic, more fun, or it can help build our skills in some ways.
But it’s always a choice.
Which route would you rather take?
Now, don’t get me wrong—this isn’t about staying cozy. Growth lives on the edge of what we can handle, stretching our limits. But here’s the secret: even that push can feel easy. It’s not about grinding yourself raw; it’s about riding the challenge like a wave, not a wall.
And it’s as much, or perhaps more, a mindset game, of expanding our consciousness, rather than just our ability to feel pain.
