Doing Hard Things

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” — Carrie Fisher

Doing Hard Things:

🎯 On the heels of ditching resolutions and thinking more about adjusting your habits and doing it in a fun and loving way, is this idea of doing HARD THINGS…don’t stop reading - it’s not that hard lol!

🎯 Each day is full of routine - and establishing routines and habits make our lives easy and predictable - but this also means that routines can make our lives pretty damn boring - we can feel stuck in a rut and bored - yawn - this can result in feeling depressed, lazy or complacent - ring a bell?

🎯 Well growth comes from stepping outside of our safe routines and stretching our boundaries and doing some HARD THINGS

🎯 Adjusting your mindset to one that accepts that we have the ability to do hard things allows us to embrace challenges with optimism, strive to keep growing, and use that growth to fuel motivation to continue learning - sounds better right?

Here are some benefits of growing through doing hard things:

💡 It teaches us long-term growth mindset strategies, helping us become immune to resignation

💡It opens up creative possibilities - stimulating dopamine

💡It reveals the value of criticism - doing hard things leaves us open to others judging us - we have the power and choice to instead take this as an opportunity to grow, be curious or change our approach

💡It helps us understand our own strengths and weaknesses and how we can push past our fears and grow

Sure doing hard things isn’t comfortable, but if it’s comfort you seek you’re limiting your ability to learn and grow and giving up on the opportunity to become a better version of yourself!

So be curious and vigilant to look for ways that you can step outside your comfort zone and see how ‘hard things’ can become steps of opportunity and growth!

*Photo is of me trying to get comfortable doing podcasts! It is HARD putting yourself out there but the GROWTH is pretty sweet!