If you're struggling to take action to improve something in your life here's a life hack that can help you.
I call it a hack coz it's really easy to implement. It's called - LET IT BE EASY.
So let me explain how it works.
When you want to do something really important, incorporate a new habit, and achieve your big goals,
your mind immediately creates a set of arbitrary rules about what you have to do to achieve that goal.
We live in an age of information overload and we get overwhelmed because a lot of what we hear is good advice!
So when you try to figure out how to implement something in your life,
you can unintentionally create a story that it has to be complicated or it's not going to be effective.
And I think it comes from the belief that "It can't be that easy!"
And the perfectionist in us wants to "Get it right!".
And it can stop you from improving your life because you've created so much pressure and friction to DO IT RIGHT.
Take for example, Nutrition and Cancer.
There's so much information about what to eat, what's the best diet, what's going to help when you have cancer
it can be so overwhelming to implement all the things.
And when we don't do the things that we say we're going to do - we feel like we've somehow failed.
We beat ourselves up for having a lack of discipline.
And when we fail over and over again it can really affect our self-esteem, our self-trust and our self-motivation.
So back when I was first diagnosed and learnt that food was important for recovery I threw away the rule book and just implemented what was easy FOR ME.
I decided that I was going to eat more steamed broccoli. Because it was easy. Because it took only 5 minutes to steam.
I wanted to eat organic broccoli, because I heard that pesticides was not good for me.
But at the time they didn't stock organic foods at the grocery store so instead of letting perfectionism get in the way I said "F*ck it."
I created as little friction as possible for myself.
I did things imperfectly - because I told myself that "I couldn't F*ck it up."
Another example of when I applied the Let it BE EASY hack is when I caught myself buying into the story that preparing home cooked meals were hard work.
I really believed that home cooked meals are the healthiest and most economical way to eat. BUT……. the shopping, the prepping, the cooking, the cleaning up was becoming a grind and I struggled to stay consistent.
One day I just DECIDED that home cooked meals were EASY.
So when I focused on letting it be easy, I got so many downloads on HOW to make it easy.
I got groceries delivered to me - so that was easy
I batch prep my stuff so when it came time to cook - it was easy
I asked for help - from my daughter and husband - because being supported made things easy
I'm constantly finding easy recipes to inspire me to cook - so it made it fun and easy
As the saying goes, what we focus on expands. And I'm constantly finding new ways to make home-made meals EASIER AND EASIER.
Hope that hack is useful.
Let me know one thing that you're currently struggling with that you want to be easy?
Remember, you get to JUST DECIDE that it's going to be easy!
Want more help to implement this “Let it Be Easy” hack? Book in a discovery call with me and I’ll show you how life can be easy.
All my Love,
Trifina Sofian
Life Coach to Cancer Survivors