The Reason Everything Gets Easier
It was hard to live without caffeine and now it’s easier.
Moving to a new city where garbage pick up is Tuesday and not Wednesday used to be really hard to remember, but now it’s easier.
Writing every day used to be nearly impossible, and then it got easier.
The reason why things get easier and easy is because they get normal…and normal is easy…or at least has an ease to normal.
So that’s part of the task, changing your definition of normal…while understanding that the change you seek will be painful, annoying, inconvenient, unpopular, especially at first…and then it will get easier.
p.s. The Reason (Almost) Everything Gets Easier
If a champion marathon runner went what I go through every time I run one mile, there’s no way they would commit themselves to a life of running. It’s awful and demoralizing for me, because I don’t do it often enough. But for them, mile one got a lot easier over time.
However, mile 26 is always suppose to be difficult, that’s the whole point…that’s why you get into marathon running in the first place is BECAUSE the 26th mile is the type of pain you like. The pain of the 26th mile is not meant to grow into ease. So if you hate the pain of the 26th mile you shouldn’t try to be a champion marathon runner.
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