Frontload the Hard Work to Make the Rest Easy

Jason Lam
1 min readAug 15, 2020
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Ways to change the difficulty setting of Life on hard more:

  • Staying out drinking until 4 am when you have an 8 am meeting the next day
  • Starting the day without your top 3 objectives identified the night before
  • Choosing to binge Prison Break instead of going to buy groceries and preparing ingredients so that they’re ready-to-cook right away when you get home after work
  • Placing the book you’re trying to finish in a drawer you only open once a month instead of the dining table you sit down at every morning
  • Not playing strong defense in the beginning of a basketball game, so now you’re 30 points behind in the 4th quarter

Those are just some of the endless amount of ways to play life on hard mode, which is fine if you really like for things to be hard. But why make it hard to execute or follow through on the things that matter to you.

What can you do to set life on easy mode?

Surprisingly, what feels like hard mode in the beginning sets the difficulty to easy mode later on.

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