Think “Easy” Instead of “Hard”

The things that are hard for you may not be hard for others. The same goes with things that are easy. Ultimately, these are subjective; they’re inherently not what we think they are, but they only become so precisely because we thought it to be that way. Dubbing something as hard such as going to work, driving, or whatever action, makes them hard. Using that same logic, thinking that something is easy will make it easy. Our actions, responsibilities, and obligations don’t have meaning until we attach meaning to it.

Try this: for the next two days, every time you say something is hard to do, put it down on your mental notebook. After that, think of it as something easy like you’re moving it to a box labelled ‘hard’ to one that is labelled ‘easy’. Observe your demeanor before and after the change. More likely than not, there will be a shift whether it be obvious or just slightly noticeable; it would show in the way you handle a situation. The issue at hand may still be objectively difficult to do but through adopting this mindset that makes you believe otherwise, the task becomes easy in the sense that you are well-equipped with a clear and goal-oriented mindset. When you constantly label it as ‘hard’, you wouldn’t be able to think outside of it to come up with a solution because you’ve hardwired your mind into thinking it’s impossible to do. 

How difficult or easy we view much of the things we do is essentially a matter of choice. There’s no denying that there are things that are downright hard to achieve -- nothing good comes easily. But what matters is that one push to get you to do it. You don’t even have to believe that easy is actually easy for you to choose it and for it to work for you.