Forego something easy
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Want to help yourself grow stronger, more purposeful, more capable? Choose to forego something easy each day.
Easy activities entice you into wasting time, losing focus, and setting aside purpose. They lull you into carelessness and complacency.
Those are not ideal states in which to experience and fulfill the potential of your life. You deserve more richness and depth than what is found in the easiest choices.
Just because an easy option is available doesn’t automatically make it the best option. That’s especially true when you extend your consideration beyond the fleeting moment and into the whole of your life.
Certainly it’s foolish to impose unnecessary burdens on yourself. Yet it’s also shortsighted when you deny yourself the opportunity for challenging, meaningful and satisfying effort.
What is easy, what is empty, cannot fill you with value, no matter how much of it you get. Look for opportunities to replace it with experiences and activities that are not so easy, yet much more enriching.
— Ralph Marston