Every day, you have the opportunity to make choices. More often than not, these choices will sound something like:
Do I choose the painful, gratifying path, or do I choose the easy, comfortable path?
You want to make a change in your life, and you’re too tired after work. Will you wake up 15 minutes earlier to schedule it into your day, or not?
Something’s been bugging you for a couple of weeks now. Will you see the doctor or not?
You want to go to the gym. Will you go, or not?
Your health requires you to get an expensive treatment that you’ve been putting off. Will you put together a savings plan and start executing on it, or not?
You’ve experienced something that causes you a lot of emotional pain and regret. Will you confront it and let it go, or will you keep running away from it?
The best part of the painful, gratifying path is to keep in mind that while the process is more difficult, you’ll probably feel much better after. Life is funny like that. The more difficult an experience is, the better you’ll feel about it.
Thanks to Dr. Edith Eger for the reminder that there’s always a choice.