What’s Easy – What’s Not ~ By Christine Kane
(This is an article I come back to often, and one that I thought could offer a lot of value to others who might not have discovered Christine. So I share it here for all of you. Reposted with permission. Photo credit: mine.)
It’s easy to be right.
It’s not easy to be kind.
It’s easy to hope.
It’s not easy to know.
It’s easy to be a damsel.
It’s not easy to be a heroine.
It’s easy to complain.
It’s not easy to make requests.
It’s easy to have the perfect retort.
It’s not easy to listen.
It’s easy to be busy.
It’s not easy to be productive.
It’s easy to criticize.
It’s not easy to create.
It’s easy to say you don’t feel like it.
It’s not easy to do it anyway.
It’s easy to obsess.
It’s not easy to meditate.
It’s easy to sing your heart out when the audience loves you.
It’s not easy to sing your heart out when no one is paying attention.
It’s easy to wait for rescue.
It’s not easy to rescue yourself.
It’s easy to resent people who take up your time.
It’s not easy to say no in the first place.
It’s easy to make excuses.
It’s not easy to take responsibility.
It’s easy to worry.
It’s not easy to make a plan.
It’s easy to come up with reasons why someone pissed you off.
It’s not easy to ask yourself how you participated.
It’s easy to dabble.
It’s not easy to commit.
It’s easy to rail on the idiot driver behind you.
It’s not easy to just move out of his way.
It’s easy to read books about writing.
It’s not easy to sit down and write.
It’s easy to say no to bad things because you want good things.
It’s not easy to say no to good things because you want great things.
It’s easy to fire off an angry email or blog comment.
It’s not easy to pause and breathe and clarify your feelings.
It’s easy to react to an angry email or blog comment by firing one back.
It’s not easy to pause and breathe and clarify your meaning.
It’s easy to start your idea.
It’s not easy to finish it.
It’s easy to buy something cheap because it’s cheap.
It’s not easy to buy something expensive because you love it.
It’s easy to say you don’t know what you want.
It’s not easy to admit what you do want.
It’s easy to let a kid watch TV.
It’s not easy to find ways to play with a kid.
It’s easy to do urgent things.
It’s not easy to do important things.
It’s easy to say it’s too hard.
It’s worth it to do what’s not easy.
Christine Kane is the Mentor to Women Who are Changing the World. She helps women uplevel their lives, their businesses and their success. Her weekly LiveCreative eZine goes out to over 12,000 subscribers. If you are ready to take your life and your world to the next level, you can sign up for a F.R.E.E. subscription at http://christinekane.com.