Summary

The article discusses the importance of confronting challenging tasks instead of avoiding them in pursuit of easy success.

Abstract

The author reflects on their personal journey of initially seeking quick and effortless ways to succeed through various online business strategies like dropshipping and social media marketing. Despite trying many of these low-effort methods, they realized that true success lies in the hard work and dedication to tasks that are initially daunting. The article emphasizes that avoiding difficult work is a form of laziness and that the success one seeks is often found in the work they are not doing. The author encourages readers to identify and tackle the challenging tasks they tend to avoid, suggesting that this is the key to overcoming obstacles and achieving their goals.

Opinions

The author acknowledges their own initial laziness in seeking easy paths to success without putting in the necessary effort.
They recognize that a low barrier to entry in any venture means high competition, which was a mistake in their initial approach.
The article criticizes the culture of looking for immediate results without investing adequate effort.
It suggests that the true path to success involves facing and overcoming difficult tasks, not circumventing them.
The author believes that readers will resonate with the tendency to procrastinate on challenging work and encourages them to confront these tasks.
There is an emphasis on the transformative power of hard work

Stop Running From What You Know You Need to Do

The most practical advice I’ve come across.

The Reality of Being Lazy

For the past few years, my YouTube home page has been filled with business gurus who try and teach the easiest way to get to $X a month.

Dropshipping, social media marketing, and day trading were just some of the concepts that were pushed in these videos.

Every way to make money seemed to be recommended, except becoming well-equipped to pursue a legitimate career (more on this later).

For a decent amount of time, I ended up trying out a few of these business recommendations. As long as it was easy to start, chances are that I gave it a shot.

I thought that I was special and that anything I attempted to do would automatically succeed with little to no effort.

That was my first mistake.

If something has a low barrier to entry, chances are that plenty of people are trying the same exact thing as you are.

I knew that this was true in the back of my mind, but my stubbornness still led me to continue down this path.

When anything became even slightly difficult, I would chalk it up to some factor outside of my control, and move on to the next thing.

Reflecting on it now, it was pretty pathetic how little I tried to make these things succeed. Even though whether or not they would’ve worked is debatable, I still didn’t give it a fair shot.

That’s when I realized that things needed to change.

No Effort = No Results

As much as it stung to admit, I was lazy.

I never wanted to put in any extra effort in places where I didn’t see immediate success.

It wasn’t until a few months ago that I was able to escape this harmful place and journey into a whole new perspective.

The most simple and straightforward advice was something that I needed to desperately hear.

The success you’re looking for is in the work you’re not doing.

It’s silly to think that I wasn’t already following this extremely helpful concept.

I knew that the path I needed to take to go where I wanted to go was going to be hard.

When I encountered the things that were supposed to be hard though, I ran away from them.

I didn’t realize that those were the things that would lead me to the results I wanted. I simply brushed them off and looked for the next thing that wasn’t hard (I still haven’t found that thing to this day).

If you’ve made it this far in the article, there’s a good chance that something difficult (that you know you should be doing) popped into your mind.

I have some good news for you though. That thing that came into your head is most likely the missing piece that you needed to get over whatever mountain you have in front of you.

What to do About it

Now that you have received (probably) the most unglamorous piece of advice you’ve ever gotten, what now?

Well, you should go do the work that you’re avoiding. The work that leads you to start scrolling on social media whenever you begin to think about it.

We all have something that we know we should be doing. Something that will objectively make our lives better, or take some stress off our shoulders.

I wish you the best of luck in tackling whatever your thing is.

As always, please leave a comment to share some of your stories. I love hearing what you have to say!