Do Some Hard Shit

Daily difficulties allow us to gain increasingly better perspectives of what is challenging.

Every day we have difficult tasks to complete. Sometimes it can be just getting up for work. For others, it's individual tasks or goals we've set for our self. We can have difficult physical, emotional, as well as mental challenges. Things seem hard based on our experiences, current habits, mindset, and daily patterns. They are very individual. Which is evident when you see how some things that are easy for one person are next to impossible for another.

Doing something difficult, even periodically, does a lot for us. Completing a task or reaching a goal gives us confidence and the ability to go again or further. The satisfaction achieved after completing something we find challenging, is enough for most people to want to engage in that type of behavior in the future. Realize that the process of completing a difficult task is the goal. The purpose. Growing the ability to finish something hard allows you to develop the skills to endure other difficult challenges.

Developing these skills and cultivating the ability to continuously do hard things and complete them takes time. Small victories and mental celebrations can pave the way for increasingly bigger wins. Substituted fries for an apple when you stopped to pick up a fast food sandwich? Win. Pack a bag and bring your gym clothes with you to work even though you ended up just going home after? Win. Anything that serves as actually progress, however small, can be a win. And if you can push past your previous win, even though it may be amazingly small, that is progress. Consistency, repetition, forward momentum are all things that will bring you closer to achieving a goal or building mental and physical toughness to take on whatever you may need to tackle tomorrow.