Are You Using a Strategy of Struggle?

Are You Using a Strategy of Struggle?

It seems to be something so many of us get caught in.

We look for

• The hardest workout plan

• The Marathon, the Ironman

• The extreme restriction diet

• The complex business plan

• The ever growing to do list

• The hustle culture

• The long work hours

• The adrenaline fuelled life

Always the hardest solution.

We look to fill up all of our available time.

Always add things to our lives.

More complexity.

More effort.

More projects.

Preparing our reason for failure
before we even take the first step.

If I don’t have it yet it MUST be because it’s hard.

But far more often than not, the hard path is really the easy way out.

It’s avoidance of the discomfort of silence

It’s what everyone else is doing

It’s conformity so there’s less judgment

You might not get everything you want but at least you’re struggling so you fit in.

The uncomfortable path
is different.

It means REALLY thinking.

Deciding on the life you
REALLY want.

Challenging yourself
to find the simplest
path.

The least effort

The least time

And it’s uncomfortable

It’s means being judged because you’re different.

Lazy.

Arrogant.

Naive.

Full of yourself.

It means constantly looking at what’s not working and changing strategy.

It means NOT filling your time or adding complexity but instead constantly REFINING

Refusing to add more BUSY work

The hardest part of writing a book is editing

The hardest part of a diet is observing where you are deviating and taking a deep look at the cause.

The hardest part of a business is looking at the parts of the process that aren’t working and adjusting them until they are.

The hardest part of a marriage is looking at what’s not working and taking a look at our part in creating that.

It is the uncomfortable that causes the hard, that causes the struggle.

It’s when we face what’s uncomfortable
that life can become simple.

Until we face what’s uncomfortable things become busy, stressful, overwhelming, exhausting.

Are you ready to simplify everything?

Reach out I have some 1-to-1 spots open.

Ed Ley