We all appreciate life, despite all of the complaining we do, we really do enjoy life. After all, what is the alternative?  Let’s keep it as simple as this: we have a few simple decisions to make each day. Every day, with everything we do we have to make one decision. One of those decisions is either to get up in the morning and live, or to stay in bed and hide. No matter what else you run into during the day, you’ve already made the decision to get up and live, so why start worrying now?

We also have another more important  decision to make. That decision is simple. In fact, it is even simpler than you think. The decision is: Do I want to do this the easy way, or do I want to do it the hard way? It is that simple. As you live your life, you can choose to do it the easy way or to do it the hard way.

By saying easy or hard easy doesn’t mean you have to take the easy way out or  push yourself. That is a different kind of easy. The easy in this context is about the state of mind we had when we were kids. Remember when it was easy to enjoy everything? Remember when you smiled all day and laughed at everything that happened without waiting to see if it was an appropriate situation to laugh at?

Somewhere along the line it becomes easier to make life hard. It becomes natural to find all of the things we don’t like about something and focus on them. We focus on them to the point that we are unable to see any good in a situation because we are too busy thinking about everything we don’t like. We will even spend time complaining about good things in our lives. We are all  not perfect. We all complain. We find things that are good to be a “hassle” or a “burden” just like everyone else. But there is something that many of us are doing without thinking about it. We are making life very difficult for ourselves. When given the decision to make life easy or make life hard, we are choosing to make it hard. Why? We have the power to make a decision. We can decide to make life easier, if we really want to. When you are truly living your life, you make it easier on yourself and everyone around you.

Live life, enjoy it and make it easy.