Choices, Choices, Choices.

Often in a supermarket I think “this would be easier if there was only one product to chose from.”  But so often it is choices, choices, choices.
When I sat down to write yesterday, I had the following quote in mind from James Clear.  But I ended up writing about another one.
Today it is this one. “"Your habits are often a byproduct of convenience. [We] seek the path of least resistance, which means the most convenient option is often the one that wins. Make good choices more convenient and bad choices less so."
This taking the path of least resistance is a lived experience for me.  All too often I heed the voice that says, “rest today.”  That is not mistaking the voice I heed when I genuinely need a rest.  It is too easy to push myself un-necessarily.  It is easy to think I am doing the right thing in that circumstance, but I have found nothing leads to burn out like over doing even a good thing.
No I am talking about a voice that encourages slackness and the lack of achievement.  To me there is a time and a place for everything.  A time to work hard and a time to give it away for a while.
Often for me the time of working hard is not the time of the most convenient.  I have found that achieving anything worthwhile is not taking the most convenient option.  It generally means going above and beyond what I think I am capable of.  I only find out what I am capable of when I attempt something I think I am incapable of.
It is certainly inconvenient.  It is often a lonely place.  Too often it is the place I am in where someone unwilling to be stretched is ready to rejoice in my fall with a quip like “I told you so.”
But for me that does not matter much.  The place I want to be is a place beyond my current horizon.  A place I reach for knowing that I may not be able to reach it yet - but I will.  What is inconvenient today leads to a more desirable place of convenience.
Good but inconvenient choices may be hard, but following and doing them crowds out the bad choices and I am way more likely to reach my goal.