The Discomfort of Growth Is Always Less Difficult Than the Heartbreak of Regret

Hard is easy, and easy is hard.

Human beings grow the most in hard times. So we need to remember that failure is only a failure when seen as a failure. Without taking risks and having some failure there is no growth, progress and success.

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Discomfort brings joy. In a culture where we encourage to take the easy path, what I'm suggesting to you is you really do focus each day on the consistent doing of difficult little things. And I know it's really easy to think that that might be a formula for living a really unhappy life. I am here to offer to you sincerely, that's how you get to have a great life. Write this down. Hard is easy and easy is hard. When you do hard things, you end up with an easy life full of self-respect, true power, creativity, productivity, prosperity. The people around you adore you, they're mesmerized by you, and you have enormous levels of self-love because you're honoring your gifts and your talents. You're full of joy. You're full of inner peace because you have done the things most people won't do. You get up early, for example. You eat clean. You've got a great morning routine. You take your work seriously. Your craft is your profession. You're not showing up like an amateur. You treat people well. You're a great family member. You're a great neighbor. You're ethical. You work on yourself. You read great books. You take nature walks. You're kind to strangers. When you do things that aren't easy, you have an easy life. That's why I say hard is easy and easy is hard. If you go for the easy books or the easy friendships or the easy work projects or the easy TV shows or the video games or the easy meals to eat because they taste good even though they are toxic. If you go for the easy way to operate like you're reactive, you act one very single emotion. If you take the easy slippery way in business deals versus are willing to walk away from a business deal if it doesn't suit your ethics and it's not the right thing for you, not only you, but the counter-party, that's not always easy. It's hard, but it'll give you an easy life. It'll give you a life free from a lot of conflict. It'll give you a life full of joy. It'll give you a life full of a lot of peace. It'll give you a life full of people who respect you and cherish you. and love to do business with you and love to be around you as your friends. Hard is easy and easy is hard. And here's a tool for you and I call it the discomfort map. And as you advance through the hours of each day, the things that you're resisting, it's a map of sorts. The things you're resisting are the things you need to be doing. This is so much more powerful than you might notice in this moment. But seeing the things that you're resisting as a map, to go towards them versus run away from them. Even the fears you don't face become your walls. So when you feel frightened to do something, that's something that you're feeling uncomfortable about. Do the thing you're frightened to do, and then you take your power back from the thing that held your fear.