Source https://zenhabits.net/we-make-everything-harder/
By Leo Babauta
It sometimes amazes me how we make everything harder for ourselves than it needs to be — myself included.
That’s not a bad thing — it’s simply human. Harder is not worse. We learn from harder. So there’s a beauty and a sense to it.
That said, once we see how much harder we make things, we have an opportunity to … not make it harder. Simplify. Do things with more ease.
Before we get into how to do that, let’s look at how we make things harder.
How We Make Things Harder for Ourselves
We add a lot of extra thinking and stress. We add a bunch of extra steps. We put things off for a long time, so that it becomes so much more stressful. We worry about things we can’t control, or can’t know about (like what other people think of us).
These are all protective mechanisms — we’re trying to keep ourselves safe. But in most cases, it’s not needed.<…
Source https://zenhabits.net/we-make-everything-harder/
By Leo Babauta
It sometimes amazes me how we make everything harder for ourselves than it needs to be — myself included.
That’s not a bad thing — it’s simply human. Harder is not worse. We learn from harder. So there’s a beauty and a sense to it.
That said, once we see how much harder we make things, we have an opportunity to … not make it harder. Simplify. Do things with more ease.
Before we get into how to do that, let’s look at how we make things harder.
How We Make Things Harder for Ourselves
We add a lot of extra thinking and stress. We add a bunch of extra steps. We put things off for a long time, so that it becomes so much more stressful. We worry about things we can’t control, or can’t know about (like what other people think of us).
These are all protective mechanisms — we’re trying to keep ourselves safe. But in most cases, it’s not needed.<…
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