Do You Ever Think, It Will Be Difficult?

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Do You Ever Think, " It Will Be Difficult? "

Posted by Ken Lauher on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 @ 05:15 AM

 

While this may seem like a supportable reason, it's clearly an excuse designed to discourage you. If you're honest with

yourself about the difficulty you're experiencing with addiction, obesity, depression, shyness, low self-esteem, loneliness, or any other life aspect, you'll recognize the useless suffering you're hanging on to. It's going to be difficult anyway, why not opt for some useful suffering? Still, the fact is that you have absolutely no incontrovertible evidence that what you'd like to change is actually going to be challenging. It's just as likely to be easy for you to change your thinking as it is to be hard.Decades ago when I decided to give up smoking, for example, I used Excuses Begone! beliefs.

It was encouraging for me to realize how much more difficult it was to smoke than not to smoke. The smoker part of me always had to have a pack

of cigarettes and an ashtray within easy reach, carry matches or lighters, dispose of ashes, deal with smelly fingers and stained teeth, earn money to pay for this disgusting habit, be careful exhaling noxious

fumes, cough up nicotine residue from my lungs, buy lighter fluid and flints, and on and on. The truth was that continuing to smoke was the real difficulty, and changing my habit involved one simple thing: not smoking.This is true for virtually all of your habits. The belief that they're going to be hard to change is only a belief! Making something difficult in your mind before you even undertake the effort is

an excuse. Nothing in the world is difficult for those who set their mind to it, as an ancient Taoist master concluded.- Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating

Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer