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”Its too hard” destroys dreams…

…and robs your soul of fulfillment.  The excuse ”Its too hard” will place you in the club that the masses flock to when they find that life isn’t going to just lay down for them and give them what they want.  It takes guts to stand out from the crowd and do whats hard, because the likelihood of failure is certainly greater and when all of those who have sold out on their dreams watch you try something hard and fail will often laugh, scoff and criticize you for not being ”all that great.”

People who do what is not average, ordinary and outside the safe realm of the commonly practical are seen as eccentric and strange, even when they are successful.  How many times have you heard people talk about great artists and say, ”yeah, but they are weird” or ”their lives are a mess.”  Of course their lives are a mess!  They are trying to do something that is very hard and they don’t go around making baby crying excuses like ”its too hard.”

”Its too hard” is a search for comfort

Retirement begins when you stop trying to do something hard.  Regardless of whether it is your chosen profession or a hobby the level of difficulty in a pursuit is not determined by the profession or hobby itself but rather by the level of achievement you are striving for.  Considering the game of golf there are two ways to play, and most people play to do as well as they can, but at the end of the day, it really is to just go out, get some exercise and relax, which of course is a good thing.  But Golf gets difficult when you try to get better scores and the amazing thing is, not so many golfers work with trainers to improve their game, but wonder why their game doesn’t improve.  They don’t do it because ”its too hard” to listen to instruction, change what you are doing and to discipline yourself to get better.  It is this way throughout life.  ”Its too hard” comes out of the desire to be comfortable and not have to face your own shortcomings.

”Its too hard” leads to laziness

”Its too hard” is an invitation to avoidance behavior.  It is always going to be easier to not do something than it is to do something.  You can ”Its too hard” yourself till you stop doing anything.  Mostly of this mentality comes from being on the outside of yourself looking at the mountain you have to climb and being overwhelmed by the task.  It is normal to see a huge obstacle and get discouraged.  The way to stop that bad habit of looking at the mountain is to get inside of yourself and do the step that is important now.  Being inside the journey is much easier than standing before it and dreaming up all of the hardships that may come your way.  When you are doing what there is to do now, then that is never hard, it is only when you build obstacles in your mind does the phrase ”Its too hard” come to mind.

Learning about internet marketing, blogging and how to create a business for someone like me who spent most of his years concentrating on singing opera is hard.  Singing opera is hard.  Writing a book is hard.  But those things were possible because I was involved in doing them.  I chose to do the business not because it is easy but because it is hard for me, and when I get it learned it will no longer be hard, but seem such a small thing, just like my career in singing or writing a book.

The truth is, as you approach a wall it gets bigger and bigger, seemingly insurmountable, but when you break through or climb over it and have it behind you the wall gets smaller and smaller as you continue down your path.  People stop way before they get to the wall, the obstacle, because ”Its too hard” to climb over.  But those who persist, climb the wall and then look back and see it diminishing behind them and then that wall is no longer a wall, but a stepping stone to greatness.

Climbing the walls of life makes you look silly, feel weak and often you struggle and fail.  That is where most people give up.  ”Its too hard” is the battle cry of mediocrity.  I’ll not give in to it.

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