The belief that personal transformation is hard is itself a block. If you believe it’s hard, you probably believe a dozen other things are hard too—and that belief is making all of them harder. “The transformation happens no faster than we think it can happen.”
“If you realize that it doesn’t have to be hard, that it’s the way you’re looking at it, you get all that freedom.”
Joe ran an experiment: do nothing you don’t want to do for a week. First week, the trash didn’t get taken out. Then he realized he didn’t want to live in a stinky house—so he learned how to want to take out the trash. “How I approached things was far more important than if I approached them.”
The relationship to the work matters more than the work itself.
Related Concepts
- Should creates stress, not change
- How you do it determines if you do it
- You have already changed thousands of beliefs without noticing
- Changing behavior is the most efficient way to change consciousness
- The resistance that blocks you in a course is the same resistance blocking your life
- Wanting someone to change reflects a part of yourself you can’t love