“Biggest lie we are told is that it’s not that simple.  Do the thing and get it done and you will see it is that simple,” from the movie “Bleed for This” (2016).  I talk a lot about the need to follow our path and to keep a positive mindset, to not be afraid.  I’m not sure what part it is about the human experience that ever decided to believe we have to make things difficult for them to be meaningful or important.  I’m not sure what made us think that we are meant to struggle in the day to day.  I do know that there certainly were many people who benefitted from others believing this—if others thought they would be rewarded for hard work, they would work even harder.  If they thought it was complicated to be equals, they would delay being equal.  It was about power rather than the actual difficulty of it.  They systems we put in place perpetuated that and people believed it. 

The truth is life is simple—it may not be easy, but it is simple (I wrote a piece on that as well 😊).There are certainly things that require patience, and patience isn’t always easy.  There are things that require skill and that takes time to develop.  Even in those circumstances, there isn’t anything difficult about it—it just takes time, focus, and doing the thing.  We are in such a rush to move things forward that we forget what we have right in front of us.  We are so power hungry that we lose sight of what our actions mean to others (or do to others).  Life is simple, we complicate it with the details and the emotion we put in the way.  Part of it is the primal instinct for survival—we perceive competition in everything we do.  But we have the capacity and the ability to shift that.  While we may survive if we fight on our own, think of the expansiveness that happens when we work together.  The difficulty in life comes when we think we have to do it all on our own or that we need to achieve a certain status to have/produce anything meaningful.

Ask ourselves who benefits if we think life isn’t simple.  It certainly isn’t us.  We can simplify life to our purpose and we can follow it.  We can learn anything with time, we just need the patience and the persistence to keep going.  When we start following and trusting our instincts, we see that doors open we never even saw there in the first place.  While making the decision to follow those instincts can be scary and it may not be easy to take on that level of change, it doesn’t mean it’s hard.  Make a choice and follow through.  It gets hard when we stop part way through and have a million open-ended projects waiting for us to make a choice.  When we start and don’t finish, we leave doorways partially open and never really focus on the task. Pick a direction, do the thing and get it done, one step at a time, and you see that we have the power to make it simple.  We tell ourselves stories about how difficult it is, we can tell ourselves stories about how easy it is as well.  Shift the perspective and watch what happens.