One coaching question a day - #23. What's difficult?

Things should be easy, they say.
We usually like to think that everything would be just so much interesting if things would be just so much easier than they actually are.

We like to search for shortcuts. We like to search for the easy road. We like to search for free options. And yet, nothing is really for free.
And even more important, there are no shortcuts for places actually worth going.

[All things are difficult 

before they are not difficult any longer.

Can you deal with it?]

What if we would change the way we think about this?

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller [1608-1661]

What's still difficult for you, for now?
How much work, time, effort, and patience are you willing to invest, for things to become easier over time?
What do you need to learn, to change, to do, in order to do so?

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, 
better known as Baltasar Gracián [1601-1658]

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia, 1647)

What if the worth of what you are aiming to achieve would be related to the initial level of difficulty for that and things getting easier over time would be the sign that you are going in the right direction, even if it is still difficult for now?

This one is for Ran, because he can see that things are getting easier.

Tags: Coaching questions, Dealing with what's difficult, Mindset, Easy tasks and difficult tasks, Quotes, Self-awareness

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