Turning "Difficult" Into "Done!"
If you ever had a teenager (which I do) then you know they have a completely different perspective on what is “hard”. Sometimes in their not-so-fully-developed brains, taking out the garbage or doing the dishes can seem like 10 years of breaking rocks —ooooh, if they only knew 
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Unfortunately, looking at any task as “hard” can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The label “hard” can literally suck the energy right out of a person. Can it be that there is (pardon the expression) an easier way to looking at hard tasks?…
Difficult is nothing more than an arbitrary judgment. Effort is effort, and you can do it if you choose. Instead of obsessing over how difficult or easy it is, just do it. Focus on the result and, what’s even more important, your reason for making it happen.
Ralph Marston
It is amazing what we can accomplish when we take the energy we use obsessing on how much work something will take and use it to focus on just getting it done. Did you ever accomplish something significant because you didn’t know it was supposed to be “hard”, yet everyone else did? Labeling something as hard or difficult never serves you, obsessing over it will stop you in your tracks. If it needs to be done, don’t think about it, just do it —it’s really that simple.
This sounds so familiar; the same thing literally happened to me the other night.
See, usually my husband cooks, I clear the table and our teenage son does the dishes. My son is learning how to cook and my husband’s out of town, so I was left with the job of doing the dishes. This one night I was really tired and didn’t want to do them. I found all of my 53-year-old self starting to go through the usual procastination gyrations my son has mastered so beautifully, when all of a sudden I said to myself: Don’t think about it. Just do it! And I did. And it was easier than I’d thought. And of course I pointed out to him the great mind trick I had just employed, though he probably wasn’t listening.
Now I’ll just have to remember to use the same trick at work. Hmm…
HAHAHA!! Susana – thank you for your reply. I am in the same boat except I usually cook and my husband does the dishes – but husband is out of town for a week. I have been sitting here wondering if I have enough paper plates. Now, I’m going to Just do it and wash up myself!