Do Hard Things
Staying at “your level” is easy.
What do I mean by that? Well, it could be any number of things.
Staying at “your level” of education in school is easy. Taking advanced classes or AP's or dual-enrolling in college classes is hard, but it's worth it in the end.
Staying at “your level” at work is easy. Pushing yourself to learn new skills in a position with higher responsibility is hard, but it's worth it in the end.
Staying at “your level” of knowledge about your faith is easy. Digging deep into the truth and being willing to change your opinions is hard, but it's worth it in the end.
Staying at “your level” of your personality, the way you've always been, is easy. Confronting your issues, your pride, your past trauma, your emotional damage, and your selfish tendencies is hard...
...but it's worth it in the end.
If I've learned one thing in the past couple of years of my life, it's that doing hard things is worth it, even when it feels like it's going to kill you.
I've had to work through all of those examples I just mentioned above in very intense ways in my life. I've had to confront the fact that I was the problem for a time in my relationship, and I had to fix myself if I wanted to continue being a healthy partner. I've had to flip a lot of my beliefs and worldviews upside down because I had to face the truth.
I'm currently finishing up Accounting 1, which has been one of the hardest and most discouraging classes I've taken in a while. But when I finish that final exam and pass the class (maybe not by much, but I will pass), I will be so much better off having fought through, learned the material, and gained the knowledge that I did.
It's been crucial to my current stage of growing up and becoming an adult that I got out of my comfort zone. Moving out and paying bills is terrifying, but I'm doing it in a few months because I know I need to learn how to be my own person, away from my toxic family situation. Going to a new church was strange and was met with plenty of disapproval, but I made the jump, and it's had nothing but positive effects on my life. Putting serious work and communication into my relationship has not always been fun, but we will be so much better off in the long run than if we tried starting to unpack our emotional baggage ten years into marriage, when it all finally started boiling over.
My life has been hard by doing hard things. But I do them because I know that while they are hard, they are good, and they will benefit me so much more in the long run than
Thanks for reading!
