Hard…

M. Scott Peck did us all a favor when he wrote his magnum opus titled, The Road Less Traveled. If you haven’t read this one a couple times you are missing out on some serious wisdom. His opening sentence describes the melody line for great lives. This melody line is honest and not what the majority want to hear. Here it is.

“Life is difficult.”

Thank you, doctor. Talk about ccd. Here’s my “and.” What, do you suppose, makes our lives so difficult? There are an endless supply of answers and you most assuredly know your own struggle better than I…

Loss is hard. Love is hard. Labor is hard. Health is hard. Family is hard. Fighting is hard. Winning is hard. Discipline is hard. Letting go is hard. Sacrifice is hard. Training is hard. War is hard. Peace is hard. Aging is hard. Standing is hard. Humility is hard. Teamwork is hard. Justice is hard. Forgiveness is hard. Failure is hard. Feeling is hard. Forgetting is hard. Forever is hard. Marriage is hard. Depression is hard. Dementia is hard. Disease is hard. Divorce is hard. Betrayal is hard. Death is hard. Conflict is hard. Courage is hard. Patience is hard. Perseverance is hard. Practice is hard. Reading is hard. Resilience is hard. Speaking is hard. Listening is hard.  Writing is hard. Caring is hard. Repenting is hard. Repairing is hard. Retreating is hard. And, on and on the list goes. Peck was right; Life is hard. The hardest thing, however, is becoming ourselves. Let that one sink in for awhile…

The hardest thing is becoming who we are.

The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves. Pain is inevitable; misery is a choice. Do the hard work within, now and life will get easier. Choose to delay your discovery within, now, and life will seem easier for awhile but not for long. Hard now; easier later. Easy now; harder down the road. You choose. Your choices have consequences. Choose to build your CORE stronger in 2016. Choose to author an OPUS worth your best labor. And, choose to commit to a daily discipline of productive action bringing your interior and exterior lives into more and more alignment, friend. Choose this difficult work, now.

Good…