What To Do If Your Finances Feel Difficult

Hard Work.

We’ve all heard and used that phrase. I’m sure like myself, dozens of cliché phrases about the benefits of hard work just came to mind, right? Work at its origin means “something done. A deed or action.” So, work involves action and completion. The word hard as used in this context at its origin means “having difficulty in doing something”. So quite literally “hard work” means “having difficulty in completing a deed or action.”

However, “hard work” is not actually valuable when it comes to building wealth. The feeling of exhaustion afterwards is the indicator that we often use to validate the exertion of excess effort in completing a task and this is what we refer to as hard work. For decades and possibly even centuries, we’ve validated the benefits and character qualities involved in hard work. I’m here to disagree with this social concept today. If work is hard, it is because there is something we do not know. Let’s break this down together, shall we?

The problem here is that the level of difficulty is simply a perception and is 100% relative to the one perceiving it. What is difficult for me may be extremely easy for you. Objectively speaking, I’d rather have the task be less difficult so that I can effectively complete it in a lesser time frame. If a task is difficult for me, it is because I either lack…