Things That Are Deceptively Simple, But Incredibly Powerful
One of the reasons people don’t stick with things they start, even when those things are guaranteed to improve their lives, is that they think it needs to be harder and more complicated than it really is.
Part of the problem is that when things have been marketed to us as “easy” and “simple,” there’s usually so much more to it — we have been deceived, or only given part of the story, and so we believe that things are always more difficult than they are thought to be.
That’s not always true.
The other problem is that we have been told countless times that “change is hard,” and that makes us believe that it take so much time and energy that we give up quickly when we don’t see immediate results. We get impatient.
You’ve been lied to (and you believed it).
More often than not, change is not hard and doesn’t take a lot of time. What IS hard and takes a lot of time is thinking about changing and talking about changing. Those things are exhausting when you just run them on a loop without taking any action to accompany them.
In reality, the moment you commit to a decision, you have already changed. Now, it’s just a matter of taking some action to move in that direction.
