I was shocked when one of my business partners said, “Our business is so easy, fun, and rewarding!” Fun, yes. I love working with my friends. Rewarding? Oh, yes. We save lives every day. But EASY? No way.
“Really?” I asked. “You think this is EASY? “Absolutely,” she replied.
We do the same work. She thinks it’s easy. I think it’s hard. What’s going on here?
Perhaps I could have gone to a therapist for a few months and uncovered all the hidden (and not so hidden) messages about the virtues of working HARD that I learned from my hard-working parents. Maybe I would have discovered that the harder I work the more value I think I give to the world. Or that I feel accepted and appreciated based on my sweat-factor.
But instead, I decided to build a new habit. You see, I had a habit of making things hard. One of those “least action pathways” Dianne Collins writes about in her book, “Do You Quantum Think?” That well-worn neural pathway that keeps us doing the same thing over and over again even if it doesn’t feel good, as demonstrated in the movie, “What the Bleep?” In terms I understand best: I was in a “rut.” So I followed my Revolutionary Agreement to “Keep Doing What Works and Change What Doesn’t.”
