Dare to Be Easy: The Difference Between Hard Work and Working Hard

by | Apr 23, 2012 | Business Planning, Goal Setting, Life Goals, Time Management

I was trying to think of an interesting and enticing intro to tee up this blog post, but it wasn’t flowing.  It was HARD WORK.  I probably spent about two hours on it… Went on to write something else, came back, tried again… It just wasn’t happening.  The content still smelled funny.  Then I realized I just needed to delete the crap content and get straight to my point.  

I didn’t give up, chuck the whole post – I kept at it, but I changed my style. I reframed my measure of success, ditched the mind game I was playing with myself, and opted for easy.

We are taught that it takes hard work and elbow grease to succeed and get ahead.  

I beg to differ.  

Our chances of success soar if the work we do is easy.  

Easy means:

Do what feels good.  

Do what aligns with your soul purpose – the thing you breath to do.  

Do what make sense – trust your gut.

When you do that – when you align the way you show up in the world with your soul purpose –  you are living your gorgeous truth and everything gets easier.  

It just flows.  

And people notice.  

They want what you’ve got because it just looks so right.  

You will likely still have to work hard depending on how much bigger you want to play, but it won’t feel like hard work.  

It will feel like divine bliss.  

Contrary to what I was taught in high-school, easy wins.

Dare to be easy.  

You know I want to hear from you in the comments.  

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