Easily & Effortlessly
I just got back from a work-cation in Florida this past week. My colleague Erin Brown and I are working on an exciting collaboration offer and did some content creation and planning while enjoying that southern sunshine.
We stayed with family friends for the week, which is probably the 4th or 5th time they’ve hosted at least one of the Colvin girls and our plus-ones. Last time we surprised our mom with a trip to Disney! 🥲
Each visit, without a doubt, comes with some wisdom mic-drops from Lisa, my mom’s childhood friend. She’s a brilliant individual with an extensive background in psychology. Erin and I were pretty much taken to church while floating in the pool around 11pm some night last week. HA!
Lisa had some loaded questions and guidance during that several-hour poolside life session. Among the things that were said, she would always come back to “everything easily and effortlessly.”
It has been engrained in my brain, ever since I was a kid, to grind and pull through life from my bootstraps (a phrase I’ve heard come out of my dad’s mouth probably 30 times). Now, different generations have varying opinions on work ethic and blah blah blah. And my dad grew up impoverished, having 9 other siblings and only one working parent. So yes, the way he experienced early life is very different than my own.
However, his words and teachings over the years have left me in a position to relearn what success means, where to find joy and fulfillment, and what a relationship to money ought to be like.
I have found myself feeling like I’m not doing enough or having a sense of guilt when things feel like they’re too easy. Always more to be done if not with work then with something else.
Coming back to this simple statement: everything easily and effortlessly. How would things be different in life if decisions were made with this in mind?
This is not to say life is easy and effortless. But if we moved through life by making things easier for ourselves instead of feeling the need to do, be, and have more.
And with all of that, I invite you to ask yourself what can be simplified in your life right now. How do you think your everyday would be different if you moved via the lens of easily and effortlessly?