Choose Hard 🎯
In video games, you get to pick your difficulty level: Easy, Medium, Hard, Survival Mode. 🎮
Most of us secretly hope life comes with an "Easy" setting. But here's the thing about easy mode—it's boring, and you end up with wooden axes while everyone else is wielding sharp metal ones. ⚔️
The Avoidance Tax 💸
I see people everywhere trying to dodge the hard stuff:
Career-wise 💼: They stop learning new skills once they land a job. Tech workers stop following industry trends, stop doing coding challenges. Then one day—surprise!—they're either stuck in a dead-end role or scrambling to find work with outdated skills. 📉
Relationship-wise 💕: They stop tending to their partner once the ring goes on. No more deep listening, no more thoughtful gestures. They take love for granted until one day they're wondering "why did things suddenly change?" But nothing sudden happened—they just stopped watering the garden. 🥀
The Truth You Already Know 💡
If you don't challenge yourself, life will challenge you.
Think about it: Two people decide to build muscle. One starts hitting the gym proactively because he wants to get stronger. 💪 The other starts because his physiotherapist says his joints are failing and he has no choice. 🏥
Same activity. Completely different experience.
The proactive guy finds it tough but discovers joy in the process. 😊 The injury guy starts from a much lower baseline, grinding through pain just to get back to normal. 😣
Your Arsenal Matters ⚡
Players who always choose easy mode collect basic gear and breeze through simple challenges. Players who choose hard mode? They collect metal weapons, learn to craft new tools, build an entire arsenal, and know exactly which weapon works in each situation. 🛡️
They stay sharp even when they don't have to. ✨
Choose to do the hard things, you'll have a relatively easy life.
Choose to do the easy things, you'll have a relatively difficult life. 🔄
Your Move 🚀
There's something you've been avoiding. Something you know would propel your life in the direction you've always dreamed of, but it feels too hard, too uncomfortable, too much work. 😰
That's your invitation. 📨
The weather's good right now. ☀️ You get to choose your challenge while conditions are favorable, rather than having life choose it for you when the storm hits. ⛈️
What's it going to be? 🤔
If you made it this far without closing the page, you might already be ready. 🎯