The Law Of Least Effort
People don’t like making efforts… but the people on the receiving end enjoy it. Or do they?
It recently came to me that maybe I was doing everything all wrong. Maybe I was trying too hard to do things that should just naturally come easy to me.
The thing is when something doesn’t naturally come easy, the solution usually becomes pushing through it — and making it happen despite the difficulty. This is the strategy that is sloshed around the market: when something isn’t working out, just power through it.
The problem with this strategy is that it completely undermines your own heart, your own intuition and whatever else your body may be telling you. When you’re pushing through something the hard way, you’re going completely against yourself. And this can be bad in the long run.
Over time, you may begin to get used to doing things only when they are difficult, as opposed to doing the things you like doing. You end up splitting work and play, and things are either something to push through or the relaxation you deserve. This may cause a lot of stress or a lot of loathing for what needs to be done.
With enough of this, you end up dreading work, wanting to quit or burning out. This is not the way to do things.
What is the alternative?
To simply let things happen by themselves.
But I heard you say: “what happens if I need to get something done? What then?”
Well, although I don’t have all the answers, I can say that there is a way to do things that allows you to keep your cool, and exert maximum effort, without going against yourself or your intuition.
When you know something is right, then doing it becomes easy — no matter the effort you need to put in to get it done. The problem arises when you’re doing things for no reason, and think that something needs to get done a certain way when it really doesn’t.
You can very easily do the same thing but from two different perspectives. One perspective will be difficult and hurtful. The other will be easy and painless. The trick is to find the perspective that works for you and to run with it.
This is what makes experts so good at what they do. They’ve figured out how to get really good at finding the right perspective that allows them to be such high performers in the field. And people pay them lot’s of money to get a glimpse of their genius.
Unfortunately, you can be exposed to genius all you want, but the only way to actually make it work for you is to find your perspective, the perspective that works for you.
So go out and find your way, the way that works for you. Because when you do, we’ll all be happy that you did. Every person that’s found their truth is one more person on the good side, fighting the good fight.
