Take the Easy Path
I stand 10 toes down on this.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the path isn’t always easy. How ease isn’t the absence of effort, but the presence of alignment.
And today, I want to tell you to take the easy path. 😬
I know, I know, I know. But I believe both can be true.
Let me explain.
So often, in the online space (especially among soul-driven, high-capacity women like us), we get conditioned into this idea that growth is only happening if we’re at our edge. That we should always be stretching. Always evolving. Always pushing into the next discomfort.
And listen, there is power in choosing our stretch. I’m not interested in bypassing the discomfort that often comes with transformation. But I’m also uninterested in glorifying suffering.
Sometimes, the fastest path to growth is the one that feels natural. Grounded. Good.
Sometimes, we’re so busy trying to prove our readiness that we miss the path that actually feels good to walk.
It might look like choosing local networking over Instagram because it comes more easily and brings better returns.
It might look like working after your 9-5 instead of waking up at 4am because that rhythm honors your body and life.
It might look like moving forward with the low-lift offer because it’s ready now, and letting the magnum opus unfold slowly.
This isn’t about shrinking or settling.
It’s about noticing where we’re making things hard out of habit, not discernment.
Because here’s the kicker:
We are often taking the hard path in places where we would accelerate if we took the easy one. And we’re often avoiding the right path—the one that would require more discipline, devotion, and clarity, because it’s confronting.
And we call that easy.
But it’s not.
It’s escapism in ease’s clothing.
For me? One of the best decisions I’ve made lately is to fully embrace that I’m not working on the days my girls are home with me during summer break. That’s the easy path. Not because I’m avoiding responsibility, but because trying to squeeze things in on those days just adds stress and fractures my presence. The “hard” path of forcing it actually pulls me out of integrity.
On the other hand, something that’s felt hard, but was necessary, was stepping deeper into my own authority. Claiming the value of my work. Speaking from experience, not just ideas. Naming what I see and know without softening the edges. That was the path I was avoiding. That was the one I had to lean into.
So maybe that’s your question today:
Where am I making things hard that could be simple?
Where am I calling something “ease” when it’s actually avoidance?
There is no moral hierarchy between effort and ease.
There is only discernment.
May you find the path that supports your nervous system and your next level.
And may you trust yourself to know the difference.
In service,
If this transmission stirred something in you, there’s more where that came from.
I write love letters for the femme founder wanting to build her business empire with clarity, precision and clarity.
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