Difficult vs. Hard

Seth Godin writes one way to set yourself apart is to do the difficult work. Hard work can be done by many ambitious soles. Hard work is doing reports, paper work, your daily professional duties, cleaning the house, running kids, and battling laundry.

Difficult work, however, is what we tend to procrastinate; writing, creating, having tough conversations, self-transformation, saving money, and learning new software. T. Harv Eker says that wealthy people do the difficult work that makes life easy. They do what is next in spite of how they feel, whether they want to, or if it's convenient.

My question is why do we avoid the difficult work? Here are at least a few of the reasons:

• We're out of our comfort zone with difficult work.
• We don't believe we have what it takes for completion.
• We believe our resources are inadequate.
• We get distracted. Difficult work may require deep concentration.
• Simply, it's just plain difficult and who wants to do difficult? It's just too hard.

Difficult work stops my clients' progress more than anything else. Mine as well. What about you? What additional roadblocks are stopping you from achieving an outstanding life? Or is achieving the most solid blockage of all? We keep thinking our best life will eventually "happen" to us, when in fact, we must earn it out right with the difficult work.

The solution lies in our perception of difficult work. We must change the way we think about difficult, which in turn, will drive a new way of processing these major challenges.