7. Why 'Easy-Peasy' needs to be more highly rated

For an achievement to be worthwhile, does it have to be a labour of love? Or does 'easy-peasy' deserve more merit than it generally gets?

We are constantly fed the idea that a struggle elicits (deserves?) a satisfying and rewarding result. Indeed, a "result' is seem as a fitting reward for struggle. The trials of Hercules etc.

But what if you can achieve something with relative ease? Does 'easy-peasy' necessarily diminish or demean your achievement? Who is anyone to judge that it does? ;-)

And yet, do you find yourself judging yourself harshly and belittling your own achievements if the achievement wasn't tooooo difficult to achieve?

For example, I know that some people really struggle to find the words and the structure to keep writing their blog. They may pour over it for hours before they post it.

Me, I know I can write - I can play with words and ideas and get them down on paper or on screen in real time as I think them. The embryonic idea-buds may start to form a little earlier - when I'm in the shower, say, or lying in bed or doing anything else but writing and "actively" creating. But once I start, I find it pretty easy to write. Lucky me ... 

Yet last time I posted to this blog, I wondered if I was cheating my readers because it hadn't taken me a zillion hours and blood sweat n tears to write it. Was I a fraud? Was I a charlatan? Was I just tooo darn cavalier? Too casual? was it all just too darn EASY? All these anxieties and negative self-judgements began to flood into me. This had to be too easy to be considered worthy of merit.

And then I received a message on my Facebook wall - the reader was loving my blog ...

And I remembered what kitten with a ball of string is all about. It IS about easy - it is about play - and how easy - and pleasurable - and valuable things can be when they are easy.

Worthwhile achievement is not ring-fenced for the followers of struggle. Yes, life throws up its challenges. To all of us. Yes, we all face times of struggle.

And there also things that we find just easy-peasy. To undervalue our key strengths instead of playing to them is a pointless exercise in self-flagellation. So how about you play to your strengths and give yourself a break? Love doth not have to be a labour. Go with the easy-peasy. Like a kitten with a ball of string. It's a walk in the park.

© Annie Wigman