75- Why My Hard work Wasn't Paying Off

I recently saw a tweet from a father of an 8 year old daughter who just found out she didn’t make her softball team.  The first thing she said to her dad after she found out the news: “Alright dad grab your glove,  it’s time to work even harder.” This tweet received thousands of retweets.  It rubbed me the wrong way.  Why?  Because working harder nearly destroyed me.  Working harder is wildly celebrated in our society and, as a kid,  I wanted more than anything to be celebrated.  Working harder was a coping mechanism for me because I subconsciously didn’t believe I was good enough without it.  I thought working harder was the only way to reach my dreams.  Until, I discovered another way.  If you are working hard, thriving and truly happy, then fist bump to you, keep going!! I support you. This message isn’t for you.  But, if you are someone who has worked your ass off and you haven’t been getting the results you want or you feel like something is missing from this whole hard work=success puzzle, then, I feel you! I think you’ll dig my latest podcast episode “‘why your hard work isn’t paying off”  In the episode I talk about:  Why hard work isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be How to get what you want with less effort  Stories of how I attracted things in my life without hustling  The question I ask myself all the time to make things much easier for myself  And more.  I promise you, there is another way to go after your dreams with way less struggle and much more ease.