We often assume that the good path—the healthy path—is the hard one. You’ve probably heard it framed this way before:
Staying stuck in an unhealthy
lifestyle is easy, but living with vitality and balance is hard. Relapsing into old habits is the path of least resistance, but staying in long-term recovery? That’s the hard road. And so the story goes.
But what if that’s not true? What if the difference isn’t so
much between “hard” and “easy,” but between what’s been prepared and what hasn’t?
In the quote below, Steven Guise invites us to rethink our assumptions. Maybe the reason unhealthy choices often feel easier is because we’ve set them up to be that way. But what if the “hard road” of recovery, or
spiritual growth, or emotional well-being, doesn’t have to be so hard?
What if we could reverse-engineer ease into it?
