Choose Your Hard

Regardless of what you choose to do in life, something is going to be difficult. So let’s talk about which difficult choice you’re going to make.

Everything is Hard

Everything you do or don’t do will lead to something difficult. If you train hard, that’s going to be difficult and challenging. You’re going to have to get up early, stay up late, or give up time somewhere to get under the bar, and buy and prepare the right foods. That’s one choice for your hard.

However, on the flip side, if you don’t train at all, you’re going to be overweight or underweight. You’re going to be sluggish. You’re going to develop health complications and struggle to perform even basic physical tasks. This is also hard. This is another choice for your hard.

The point here being that which way you go, there’s going to be some kind of difficulty. You can face it now and choose to confront it, or you can avoid it now and choose to get run over by it later. Usually in a significantly worse way. Your choices, or lack there of, have consequences. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that by taking it easy when you should be grinding, you’re somehow avoiding the difficult times. That’s a lie your short term thinking is telling you to trick you into not putting your mind and body through the crucible now, today. Don’t listen. Choose the hard now to ease and even eliminate the pain and added difficulty later.

Plan For Your Hard

This doesn’t mean I’m advocating for simply flinging yourself into needless, over complicated difficulty. Hard work alone does not automatically equate to efficient results. Imagine if you and I start digging holes next to each other. If you use a spoon and I use a backhoe, it won’t matter how hard you work. The work on my side is getting done more quickly, which frees me up to dig deeper or get other work done.

My point here is that just deciding to do “hard work” isn’t enough. One of the other facets of hard is the effort it takes to find out just how you need to apply your efforts. You need to decide what training, what eating, what education, what training is right for you to advance your goals. You can get plenty of advice, coaching, and training from others. However, in the end, you need to plan out your own hard choices, and where and when you will choose your hard.

Just be sure that you do choose. Because whether you like it or not, the difficult times are coming. So choose your hard now, while you have the chance to,

What is Your Hard?

As always, I want to hear from all of you. What are the hard choices you make each day? Where do you apply your efforts? What difficulties do you choose to face? You never know who you might inspire.