Simple Not Easy

Any worthwhile goal is usually simple, but not easy.

It's simple to lose weight. You just eat fewer calories than you burn. But is it is easy? Not for most! If it was easy, then there wouldn't be a multi-million-pound industry teaching us how to lose weight.

It's simple to make money at business. You just create value and find enough customers who value you and your product enough to pay you for that value. But it's definitely not easy. If it was easy, then there wouldn't be so many failed businesses, frustrated business owners and marketing companies selling you the golden ticket to financial freedom and abundant riches.

The truth is these things are simple. The reason they are not easy is because we often take the hardest route, we don't follow an established playbook, we create sabotage and roadblocks for ourselves, we want to take a shortcut when there isn't any, or follow a more exciting route, when we would be better taking the boring one.

The thing is most things are relatively simple. But they are not easy, and one of the reasons why we find them anything but easy is because easy is boring and no-one likes boring anymore. Boring is probably worse than failing. So we would rather sabotage the simple path because we cannot abide boring!

My conclusion is that it must, in large part, be our wavering mind, sabotaging beliefs and refusal to walk the boring, straight path to success that creates stress for us in key areas of life. Noting this is helpful because it eliminates the temptation to overcomplicate things and gets us to the heart of the matter.

It makes you ask yourself, where are you going, what are you trying to achieve and why are you avoiding the simple way of getting there? It's a little uncomfortable to ask the last part of that question, in particular. Why are we avoiding the simple path? But I am sure if we reflected on that, the answer would be somehow enlightening and would show us the ways in which we get in our own way.