What does it mean for something to be “easy”?

My coach called this out to me the other day, she told me I kept using the word “easy” or wanting to experience more ease in my life, work, etc. She asked me what exactly did easy mean to me.

I had to pause for a couple of minutes because I honestly didn’t know what easy meant. I thought it meant that something was simple to do, that I didn’t even have to think about it – like it was second nature. I thought it meant this was something that came naturally and intuitively to me – almost as if it was innate in my design.

And then it hit me. Easy is the result of a lot of hard work.

Easy is not always innate or intuitive – though of course sometimes it can be (we all have our gifts, after all). Easy is the cumulative effect of weeks, months, or even years of working at something and getting better at it. Mastery is not achieved from one day to the next, but rather the accumulation of thousands of hours of practice.

This is why Seth Godin promotes focusing on a Practice and why in his book Outliers Malcom Gladwell talks about achieving expertiseand success in terms of 10,000 hours of practicing a specific task or skill.

“Easy” is measured by the amount of time, effort, and practice you put into getting so good at something that it feels second-nature to you.

When I started to look a bit deeper, I realized that today there are many things I consider easy that just a few months (or years) ago felt incredibly difficult.

Here are just a few examples:

• Writing every day
• Meditating daily
• Going into deep focus
• Saying “no”
• Finding time for myself
• Feeling confident, centered, and grounded in romantic relationships
• Trusting my intuition
• Being able to reflect

Take a moment to think about what is really easy in your life today? Now consider if there was a time when that wasn’t easy for you? What closed the gap?

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