Easy Way

Have you noticed in life we want things quick and easy. What is the biggest restaurant chain? It is McDonalds. When trying to lose weight what do people do, they try and buy pills to take to burn fat the easy way. In everyday life we want and we want more, but what are we doing to reach the goals that we have set for ourselves?

Are we actually doing the work it takes, are we striving for excellence in all we do? In your marriage/relationships are you doing just what it takes to get by or are you going above and beyond the call? At work are you just doing the bare minimal to get a paycheck? In your kids lives are you being a parent to them and teaching them the value of life, of love? In your friendships are you being a true friend or are you just doing enough to be called a somewhat friend?

Are you seeing a trend, we like things the easy way. When the going gets tough, what do the tough do? It says they get going, but why not make it when the going gets tough, the tough learn and grow, they work on figuring out the solutions to the problems, they work to become better husbands or even wives, or girlfriends or boyfriends, they work to become better parents, because life is not just staying in one place, it is learning and growing, it is changing.

Change begins with you, that is my favorite saying now, because to many times we try and change the people around us, but we are afraid to look at ourselves and see that change needs to happen to us. We can't have everything the easy way anymore, that it is going to take work, that it is going to take struggles and hard times, life isn't easy if you want to live it. Life is only easy if you want to lay down and watch the clouds pass you by and even with that you will struggle. Today it is about choices, do you want to learn and grow or do you want to give up?

Today the choice is yours, do you want to give up. Do you want to continue pointing fingers and saying if they would change life would be so much easier, but let me tell you even if they change and you have not, life will not be easier. It isn't about putting patches on the holes in our lives, it is about repair and growing and learning. It is about changing and in the changing it will not be easy, but it will be worth it and you will grow and learn so much. Stop looking for the easy way out and start seeing life for what it is, it is a choice and the choice begins with you.