The Easy Way Out

Intro

Simplicity is paramount. If you can make things easier on you, no worries. But if you find yourself continuously looking for the easiest way to success, that’s probably where you’re missing that path to success. You often hear about some of the most successful people sharing their wisdom, but when they talk about looking for easy ways to do things, it’s often because they’ve already done the hard things and they have found how to leverage the right resources to make it easier on them over time. Easy didn’t start Day One for them.

The Story

I love when you hear people say, no it actually is hard. That is actually some of the stuff that has made me question whether I should continue. That’s the real shit we all need to hear and with that self-interrogation being normal. In some cases, I would argue, it’s necessary. It’s part of the process to get from A-to-Z, with some of the hardest and often the most simple, but hardest path, and that’s why it’s worth it. They’re worth it because it’s hard—if it was easy, everyone would do it. 

I’ve often found that when things get easy it’s because you’ve already done the hard work. It’s because just like you hear that when things are getting easier, you’re having more success, and starting to get a lot more clear because you’re fighting through the shit. You’ve already done the hard work and now it’s onto the next set of hard work.

Easy is not bad because sometimes smart people find easier ways to get things done. A lot of times that’s what process improvement efficiencies and just good business can be centered on. But when you find yourself always looking for easy, especially in short periods of time, looking for that quick payoff looking for answers to just magically show up—that’s when easy becomes an enemy.

Sometimes there are no great answers.

Sometimes you can’t help people help themselves.

There are often solutions or answers and they’re not being considered because people just don’t like those options—that does not make them wrong.

• Too hard

• Too expensive

• Not cool, boring

• Unpopular 

• Against the grain

• Contrary 

• The real work

People want it easy, at times you may want it easy. Simple does not mean easy, and hard does not mean it’s difficult. Intentionality in choosing our path is where the decisions meet logic, and drive a path aligned with the right work, at the right time, working towards the right outcomes.

Closing

Decision-making is highly underrated. Not long drawn out, strategic planning, in depth analysis, methodical stuff, comprehensive interviews, but understanding the nuance of when to act now, when to pause, when to not make a decision. Often, the most important decisions are those we decide not to make, or significantly delay. Assess the real level of urgency, not the emotional view. In many cases, the urgency shows whether it is an immediate decision or a long-term decision and answers when to make it and the potential correlated impacts.

Confusing, immediate decision-making for urgent situations and long-term precedent can be killing your business. Sometimes, we need to pause and think—does my level of urgency with decisions and actions, mirror the criticality of this situation or align with my focus?

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About the Author, Graham Peelle