“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same” – The Fray
It’s easy to choose easy, right? When things are comfortable and feel good – our brains and bodies want to rationalize why it’s fine to live in that comfort zone. We want to believe that it’s our maximum potential – what’s really so wrong with reality as it exists?
I, however, have been gifted with the unique ability to see things as they have the potential to be, and not necessarily as they are in a moment. (Maybe a bit of a double edged sword, but people call me an optimist.) It’s not so much that I don’t love the easy, that I can’t live within the status quo. It’s that I can simultaneously appreciate it and know what something has the potential to be.
But so often we get stuck. We like feeling comfortable. It’s not necessarily any additional work. Our brain and bodies don’t have to exert themselves to figure our position relative to our surroundings. So, our brain will do ANYTHING to keep it that way. It’s self preservation, in a way. Logically rationalize away any need for our systems to exert additional energy on improvement.
That would just be too uncomfortable, wouldn’t it?
But why not?
Why not expand what our brain can conceive is normal for us? Why not push for what we know we can achieve if we just put in a little work?
Our hearts know better, after all.
Seth Godin’s book The Dip always comes to mind when I consider things like that. He pushes for ditching anything you want be mediocre at. What’s the point in pursuing anything if you don’t intend to be the best in the world at it, after all?
There isn’t.
Sometimes you have to do the difficult things because you know that they are the best thing.
Sometimes you have to look beyond your head.
Sometimes you have to go past your ego that likes feeling so important and doted over all the time.
Sometimes you have to choose the difficult things because evolution is worth more than comfort.
Today I ran. It was the longest I’ve run yet. Maybe my soul needed it.
Maybe I needed to prove to myself that I can do difficult things that seem impossible and come out on the other end better for it. Stronger.
Either way. I’m proud.
Maybe you want it, maybe you need it
Maybe it’s all you’re running from
Perfection will not come
And all at once the crowd begins to sing
Sometimes
We’d never know what’s wrong without the pain
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
Go out and do something you feel is impossible today.
I promise you can do it, even when it hurts and everything seems to be pushing back against you.
You can.
Don’t worry. I won’t let you play small at this.
We have work to do.
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