Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be

Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be Is The Subject On The Steve Jobs Inspired Join Up Dots Podcast


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Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be

Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be seems to be a problem in todays day and age.

It should be be the case for sure, as we have more and more devices and instruments to make things much simpler.

But is this true?

By being given things that should be the answer to all our problems, are we actually losing ourselves in the weeds?

Well in todays episode of Join Up Dots, we are going to ask the question Are We Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be” in our businesses and life.

And best of all what we can do about it.

Changing the Hard Is Best Mindset

If i look back on my family life when i was growing up it was surrounded by hardworking adults.

Adults that would spend their time spouting such amazing advice as “If its not hard then its not worth doing”

What the hell does that actually mean, as its so wrong its unbelievable.

If you look at all the high achievers, yes there has of course been grind and hustle to get things going.

But also they knew where their efforts were best placed and that was going into the sweet spot of “talent, skills and focus”

They know what they do best, and focus their energies on that key area as the results will come to them quicker.

So if you are trapped in the “I’m going to force my way through the issue” thinking, then thin again.

Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be is the wrong way to go.

Simplest is the most effective.

What Goes Up Most Come Down (Burnout)

We are all able to work incredibly hard on things, both physically and mentally. But for how long is anyone’s guess.

We are all human batteries that need rest and recharging to work at our best.

I remember being hit with acute burnout  and it almost killed me.

Every cell of my body was worn out, depleted and deep inly into the red, by my desire to work harder than anyone I knew.

Now i would never ever work as hard as i did, unless i was balancing it with a desire to work hard at resting and restoring my energies.

In fact I would go as far as to say “If I am making things harder than they need to be” then I will stop and leave it for a bit.

There has to be a better way to get the same result and more often than not that it leaving it to think around the problem

Making Things Harder Than They Need To Be By Ignoring The Fulcrum

Have you ever seen someone lift a boulder on their own.

Yes, some people can of course do it but the majority of us wont be able to budge it at all.

Now back thousands of years ago, when our early settlers were building monuments such as Stonehenge and the pyramids they used pivots, fulcrums and winches to move these massive stones.

Said in another way they use their brains and looked for easier ways to get the job done.

Can you do that in your own life?

Can you delegate the work out to someone else who can do it better than you can?

You can you use better systems to do the heavy lifting?

Whatever you need to do make sure that you do it, as without a doubt the way to success in life and business is keeping things simple.

Stop Swimming Against The Tide And Go With The Flow

Going with the flow was something that I was a master at one time in my life and little by little lost the skill.

When I was younger I could walk into any supermarket and have a till open up in front of me.

I could walk into the worlds busiest airports and get the only taxi or hire car out of there.

It was effortless and I was known as the luckiest man in the world. But in fact it was a simple strategy.

I just relaxed and believed that things would go my way.

I am convinced that my positive outlook lead to the majority of things that happened fortuitously to me.

So the key to stop making things harder than they need to be is simply to relax and allow things to work the way you want them to be.

And i promise you that more often than not that is exactly what will happen to you.

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