Choose your hard.  I just want to send a little reminder that we get to choose our hard.  Exactly as we get to choose our thoughts on a day to day basis, we get to choose our hard.  We get to choose the battles we face and we get to choose if we consider it a battle at all.  There are consequences to everything we do, some are more positive than others.  Some are more in line with the results we anticipated than others.  Other times, if we aren’t aligning our actions with what we say we want, we end up further off the course.  Both scenarios are hard.  It’s challenging to stick with something we’ve decided we want because we have to decide to commit every day regardless of what happens.  It’s also hard to not commit because we delay the results we were looking for.  When we choose not to do something, it can look like laziness, but it’s still hard because we are working to avoid the work.  The point is there is going to be some level of effort regardless of which action or inaction we decide to take. 

The other point is that it IS a choice.  We get to decide what we do or do not do.  We get to choose the struggle or challenges we want to face.  We get to decide to take action now or later.  Becoming who we are is work and staying the same is also work.  Decide how we want to spend our energy because that will determine the reality we see.  Life isn’t about avoiding hard, it’s about choosing what we want to face.  Brene Brown calls it deciding which shit sandwich we want to eat. No matter what we choose there are hard parts, but we can decide the level of hard we want to deal with.  We get to decide what challenges we want to face.  The more aligned we are, the challenges will seem less challenging.  So make the choice.