stop wanting easy how many great books have been written about the easy times and people's lives how many of the greatest stories of all time are about a guy who woke up and everything just went smoothly zero of them they are all about the challenging hard times that the character had to overcome and such is the case with your life that's why we think those are the greatest of all time because that's what humans are supposed to do that's what we admire how do you feel after you do something that's easy do you celebrate yourself do you pat yourself on the back and say i did something easy today no you only feel that way when you do something that was difficult to do so do more of those things on the other side of that is all the happiness fulfillment confidence that you are looking for it's all there but your expectation is for things to be easy you can't get the fruit of the labor without doing the labor embrace the challenges move towards discomfort and you'll get exactly what you're looking for