What would this look like if it were easy?
That’s a question I’m going to start asking myself more. This revisited my life as I was reviewing content from The One Thing by Gary Keller earlier this week (a book I recommend, though you can be like our leadership class and just watch this ten best ideas video). It’s a good challenging question for my brain that likes to overcomplicate getting started or build things up . . . even little things like sending an email.
So often at work I feel like I must be missing some secret knowledge when I’m called to do something new or weigh in on the strategy. And so often I learn what my pre-professional brain could never have fathomed: that there really is no secret knowledge. At least, not in the way I imagined.
What would this look like if it were easy?
Easy isn’t always right . . . but I don’t really mean easy in the sense that you should take the easy road and that hard things aren’t worth doing, but that complicated over easy is rarely the answer. For example, running is uncomplicated. You lace up your shoes and run. Maybe you make a plan for your mileage and some cross-training. But it’s not rocket science to figure out. It’s easy but effortful.
At least this week, this question helped me move, ask the right people, send the email. And it was easy and produced results faster than what I was building up in my head.
I’m adding it to my toolkit for the future as one potential way to get unstuck.
With Love,
Natalie