Why Can't Success Come Easy?

An amazing thing in life is that we don’t just set goals and have dreams, but they can actually come to fruition! What we want isn’t just an empty promise to ourselves but a potential reality that we’re called to create. And oftentimes, we succeed in creating it.

Within the process of that pursuit, something I’ve noticed is that people value their achievement less if they didn’t work hard for it. It’s almost like an achievement is more meaningful when it was earned against all odds and worked hard for.

But why does it need to be that way? Why can’t our dream life just be something that is effortlessly attracted to us? Why can’t success come easy?

I’m of the opinion that we are powerful beyond measure and each have access to exactly what we need to create whatever we want. We have an inherent connection to what we want, and who we want to be - Yet we it's not our reality exactly because there’s a resistance that dilutes our ability to access what we’re connected to.  If only we were to remove that resistance, all that’s left is a direct connection to the skills, character, and beliefs we need to make it all happen.

The reason this seems so unfathomable to us is because of the belief system we’ve been raised in. It’s a collective understanding that people are rewarded for hard work, that there’s virtue in persevering through adversity, and that it’s more meaningful to be an underdog.

And unfortunately it’s creating an unfair expectation, and causes many people to discredit the successes they’ve achieved because they feel it was just a fluke, and it wasn’t earned.

But again, that’s operating from a more traditional way of thinking. If we adopt a new belief system that doesn’t judge the mechanism that creates success, and instead welcome it when it comes, success will show up more often.

Success can come easy when you get out of your own way and let it. Until then, it’ll be the type of thing that you have to keep working hard for.