Simple and Easy

Many if not most of the physical training/sales/success/money/spiritual gurus out there sell you their info on the promise that it will be "simple and easy," to get whatever brand of progress they are selling. It ain't.

Many things are simple, but not easy. Also very little of what's worth having or achieving is easy. As you can see from yesterday's message a goal, a real tough one will take many steps broken into small, simple ones to achieve. Most of which won't be easy. This is something I will never tell you. My job in producing training and informational materials is to make things as simple as possible and effective. However if you want to legitimately lift 1,000lbs or do 100 handstand push ups - it just can't be made easy. It isn't "easy" for even the most gifted athletes on the planet.

The same goes for everything else. No one, with rare exceptions, makes a million dollars, gets a PhD, or becomes great easily. "It's the hard that makes it great," says Tom Hanks character in "A League of Their Own." You may get the training or the knowledge to make it possible, but forget easy. Instead be intelligent about what real success takes and be challenged and motivated by the fact that when you get there you'll have really done something.