October 6, 2023

Some things in life are genuinely awful and difficult. Many more things are simply unpleasant, annoying, or inconvenient. I find that if I stop to examine the things I am dreading, often enough it's not the thing itself that is so awful, but the story I have created around it. When I take a moment to consciously re-label the thing I perceived as hard and terrible with a more accurate descriptor, my apprehension is reduced and I can more forward more effectively. Some "hard" things turn out to be much "easier" than I initially anticipated.