#104: choose your hard
Many people talk about all the things they want to do, but do not follow through. Some people complain about disliking their job or having no time, yet they do not take steps to better their lives. You have to decide what you want in life and the route you will take to get there. Every person chooses his path. What route will you take?
Alissa Finerman • Living in Your Top 1%
Since hard choices are unavoidable, what matters is learning to make them consciously, deciding what to focus on and what to neglect, rather than letting them get made by default—or deceiving yourself that, with enough hard work and the right time management tricks, you might not have to make them at all.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Easy decisions, hard life. Hard decisions, easy life.
– Jerzy Gregorek
The hardest truth about happiness is that it's a choice.
— Farnham Street