How Small Acts Make a Big Life
Hard choices, easy life
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3 min readMay 29, 2023
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” — Jerzy Gregorek
Working in your jammies from 9 am to 5 pm is one definition of comfort.
Mental discomfort is something entirely different. When you get a flutter in your stomach, you’re thinking about it the night before and bad dreams of all the things that could go wrong.
That’s the kind of discomfort I’m talking about.
Comfort leads to a hard life
“Cut the crap. Literally, cut the unnecessary distractions out of your life — delete apps, unfriend and unfollow toxic people, stop committing to activities you don’t care about. Life is too short.”- Mark Manson
Being comfortable is summed up by making easy choices. Here are a few that come to mind:
- Skipping the exercise
- Foregoing the meditation
- Avoiding the hard conversations
- Not acting on the feelings you’ve had for a long while
