A Blistering Truth
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out - it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert Service
I remember a few times when I was younger that I didn’t want to be bothered with the time it would take to empty my shoe of something, or unbunch a wrinkled sock. Later I complained quite freely about the resulting blister like I was a helpless victim of an unavoidable malady.Â
One of my friends, Gordon Birch taught me, “You can do it hard easy or you can do it easy hard.” Â
It was easy to not take off my shoe… the blister was hard to live with for the next few days.  It may have been hard for me as a youth to sit down and take a shoe off but if I had… I would have had a much easier walk.
I’m not a youth anymore…but I still often find myself on the wrong side of the hard easy. It’s easy not to eat right, exercise or read worthwhile things. The hard result of such a choice will be poor and declining health and declining opportunities professionally.
Hard easy, or easy hard. It’s not the mountain that will get you ….it’s not doing the little often hard things that allow you to get injured, side lined and slowed down on the journey.
Do the hard thing first… Choose HARD - EASY….
Kirk Out
