This is optimal, living daily episode. Thirteen. Seventy nine do hard things. These thoughts will help by crystal O Reilly, dvd of a life in progress, dossier, enemy, narrator, just em all agreed EU blogs or articles sometimes book excerpts, every no day of the year to help you live a more meaningful and positive life covering self open minimalism, personal development and a lot more before we get to it. Small business owners, where a lot of hats I definitely do, and while some has our great others like the filing taxes and running payroll hat are not so great. Ass were gusto comes in, Gaza makes payroll taxes and hr actually easy for small businesses. Gusto automatically pays and files, your federal state and local taxes, so that you have to worry about it because they make it easy to add on health benefits and even for a one case for your team owning get direct access, a certified h, our experts to sounds like a great way to run your business right, but here's the thing debt

for the new year creep up earlier than you think, you're gonna wanna get started now, don't wait like gusto make easier on you as a bone Solicitors get three months free when they run their first payroll. Does one how you can be glad he gave up try demos ever yourself at I stole dot com, slash old, that's g as to Yoda com. Slash oil de France get right to it as we optimize your life. Do hard things. These thoughts will help Crystal Riley, dvd of a life in progress to see a building arrive Size life requires doing hard things living alike. To our values and top priorities in every season involves doing hard things being a questioner, stubbornly carving out a path that feels joyful and sustainable, luring too rest choosing to love yourself well and honour. Your wiring asks you who to do hard things. What we want to spend more

if, in hiding mired in fear or numbed out, we need to learn to show up afraid a move towards discomfort and practice. Doing things that feel hard we could be just starting our family or heading into empty nest, putting life back together after a loss or pain or in the thick of messy midlife, whatever age in life stage We are invited to keep learning and unfolding in doing hard. Things as important as remembering to breathe. I used to think that if I could build a life slow enough simple enough, thank you live in a bubble and avoid paying channel risk or anxiety, provoking decisions, but, of course, people kept dying in life. Was still messy and instead of healing I was hiding. This is real life, not a predictable romantic comedy. Rarely does life end with a neat. Orderly bow its messy com.

Flax, sometimes raw and deeply challenging and worth living and beautiful and meaningful living awake and on purpose means embracing the dark and the light owning that life doesn't have to be perfect or easy to be beautiful, giving ourselves permission to rest and taste pleasure. And choosing to do hard things we're going to show up fully tour in beautiful lives with joy and on purpose. We will need to do hard things. These nine thoughts have helped me practice showing up decisive help, light the path ahead of me, as I should. Of the chains of fear and start learning that I could. Despite will my inner critic and years of hiding told me do hard things if, like me, you're a strong introvert, a highly sensitive issue? or a non hustler or messy human who a shrug plenty with comparison, Faction is more a mean, inner critic, or anxiety and fear in any of its other many forms they'll likely

to help you to do hard things. These thoughts will help number one. I choose to shift from judgment into curiosity. When we allow curiosity to become more compelling than fear all the sun we find were able to show up afraid we realized, we have nothing to prove everything to gain. By letting curiosity led for awhile, we might even realize we're having fun along the way. Number two life shouldn't be easier. Life simply is miss an unwieldy, messy tangle of beauty and sorrow, incredible joy and learning to like go staying stock in one life to be easier. Robbed me of joy. Instead of expanding Three building a more hopeful tomorrow, number three. I can take one small step. I think we underestimate the creative power choosing to take one small step to ask for help. Make one vote

paint one canvas right- two hundred words to say Love you quite a noise and insurance they toward what we want. None before me, enduring is a welcome enjoy full part of the journey. There may be no perfect path, but there tremendous beauty and to light to be found on the journey We find our way by loosening our grip stepping onto the water getting our hands dirty in giving awake number five I'm already enough comparison is useless. My job is to show of raw in real to use. My small gifts offer my small light decide what to do. My one life. When I like my death bed, I won't care that I didn't look like anyone else. I want to know. I live my mission and leverage to my strength. Number six, what I say or think about me is what matters as much as external affirmation and acceptance feel good, their mood,

once I decide to love and like me, I trust my gut and in want to walk out my values, rather than falls a crowd, I'll make mistakes and we reject, did by some or all walk head held high, because I know who I am number seven. There is wisdom in every season there are natural rhythms, the law if, in our day month, an ear and learn to work with, rather than resisting the ebb and flow of energy, creativity, productivity or other highs and lows allows us to live with more curiosity and openness. Unless fear and judgment through it all number eight I get to take. The long view as long as there's whereas within me I get to keep learning growing in practising showing up to life. I dont have to panic or figure it all out. Today I could take permission to rest an opt out of

race like simply choose my response today and then tomorrow, I'll choose again number nine, I'm already happy when it Paul long enough from dreaming or striving or checking up to do list. I noticed something I'm already happy, not always or one hundred percent happy but happy none, the less, I'm well fed and loved and save Yes, there is sorrow in my life and uncertainty to browser happiness, born of deep gratitude You can do hard things help these thoughts will help many shed a little light onto your path and help you take the next small step, you just listen to the post. Titled do hard things. These thoughts were held. By Crystal Riley DVD of a life in progress. That's here. I have some comments, but first don't forget

gusto offers modern, easy payroll benefits and each are too small businesses across the country and if you all your business to be all set up by twenty twenty you dont want await, get in touch. Now get three months freely. You first payroll, just gotta gusto Doc, slash old, that's gee, you asked he oh dot. Com slash unwieldy. So I feel like I've done, the bubble life at times words more about protection from hard things, make sound nice at times, but it really is it like a muscle you don't grow unless we break down and rebuild or to our things as where real proof MRS Maes lately How to do some difficult things that I think are for the better, also Gardner, my comfort, down by travelling to places I wouldn't have gone before, among other things, tough, but it's good, especially long term. Careful about letting convenience and the easy stuff dominate. Your life is difficult to make progress in that situation, but I'll do for today have a great.

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