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I meet with Jeff Eisen my life coach on a regular basis and have benefited greatly from his wisdom. We last met at TheCodeFactory about two or three weeks ago. As we talked he mentioned that your journey through life should be effortless and easy if you are on the right path. At least that is my recollection.

I have given this considerably thought and reflected on the sentiment of effortless and easy. I tend to agree with the first part if you are pursuing your passion in life then time passes effortlessly. However, I struggle with the concept of life should be easy.

Should life be easy?

Personally I don’t want things to come to easily. My preference is to work hard and earn success. Most successful people in life fondly remember the early days in their journey when they had little, worked hard and reflect back on what great times these were later in life.

When I worked for a large multi-national company I had a great salary, good co-workers, life was relatively easy and I had a whole lot to be grateful for. However, at the same time life was somehow less fulfilling than it is now when I am pursuing my passion in life. Life is a whole lot of hard work right now, yet at the same time in terms of personal fulfilment never better. I appreciate the weekends far more, value my time with family more than ever (perhaps because there is less family time), have met an incredible number of excellent people and am more determined than ever to achieve my goals. I like hard work and don’t want easy.

When life is easy I don’t think we fully appreciate all the great things we have, in fact we take them for granted. .

Cheers,

Ian Graham

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the ones most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

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