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The biggest long-term performance and happiness killer:

‘Hard’

I always interrupt my clients when they use this word.

‘Such and such’ is hard. You can really insert anything in there.

It’s such a non-descript word, and I never sense any excitement whenever I find myself, or my clients, when using it.

I always ask: what do you mean by hard? Then we break it down more, and it’s always things like:
• It takes a long time, with focused work
• I have to coordinate with other people
• I feel a lot of emotions when it doesn’t work out the way I want

Those hit a lot different than “it’s hard”.

But none of those things have to be a problem.

What makes it a problem? Finish the sentence and find out.

“I takes a long time, with focused work, and I don’t know how to have fun and enjoy myself throughout it”

“I have to coordinate with other people, and I don’t know how to have fun and enjoy myself while I’m doing that.

“I feel a lot of emotions when it doesn’t work out the way I want, and I don’t know how to have fun and enjoy myself when that happens”

Welp, who’s fault is it now?

I’m guessing that a long time ago, you learned that when you’re feeling angry, or sad, or heavy, or slow, that you can no longer have fun and enjoy yourself. I’m guessing no one around you could pull that off, and you were never taught how.

But it doesn’t have to work like that.

“Job’s not finished” (cue the Kobe clip)

If the only time you know how to let yourself feel good is in the brief moments that the task has been completed, then yea, it might feel pretty hard if whatever you’re doing takes a lot of time.

But if you learn to celebrate everything along the way?

You get to actually do that whole “enjoy the journey/process” thing everyone keeps talking about.

If you can’t do that stuff?

Then yea, life might feel a little hard all the time, with brief moments of relief.

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Poker isn’t hard.

Your inability to have fun and enjoy yourself no matter what’s happening inside and out is what makes it hard.

If that triggers you, and you’re interested in another way, hit me up here.