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Friday, April 18, 2014

Everything is hard before it gets easy!


Is it just ME, or do you, too relate to this title?

Remember trying to learn a new lesson in school?  How to diagram a sentence, Trigonometry, conjugating verbs, parsing nouns – IN LATIN!!!

I suddenly have a pounding headache!!! 

What about leaving a message on an answering machine for the first 100 times?  Instant panic, “Hi, it’s me; call me; bye”!   NOW, we feel at ease to go on and on, and on, and on…                      AND ON!

What about using your computer?  Sending e-mails, texting?

As new experiences they may have created challenges; now they are second nature.  (Parsing nouns in Latin:  still not easy!)

Matters of the heart!  Sometimes hard; easy with the right person.

Starting a business!  Sometimes, it may seem impossible.  Then you start.  Day by day it becomes part of you and you a part of it.  It’s easier!

Virtually every day, women of The International Women’s Leadership Association (TheIWLA) share their trials, their tribulations, their triumphs.  I imagine it may have been hard for many of them to be that honest, that open; then it got easier.

In listening to these women, what was once hard(er) for me to understand has become quite easy, that is, that if something means enough to you and if that something is a true and valued cause, it’s not too hard.

What I don’t think ever gets easier is wondering why, or what if. 


What seem hard for you right now?  Please stop and consider that, won’t you?

WHY does it seem hard?  WHAT is it that scares you?  WHERE is your doubt, your fear? 

Now, here’s the big question; the ‘hardest’ one to answer….

WHO’s making it hard, WHO’s getting in your way?




While I think we all know the answer, it may be too hard to hear yourself say it aloud.  But, as soon as you say it, you begin to accept it and as soon as you accept it – it begins to get easier.

If this is too hard to do alone, call me…it used to be hard to find me; now it’s easy!!!

So, IS it just me, or do you, too still find parsing nouns – IN LATIN – not all that easy?

Et Tu?




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