I chose the “Right Way” in 11th grade when I enlisted into the Military. It was the Right way for me because I needed a lot of discipline and strict superiors who would give me a good kick in the hind quarters!
Unfortunately, that was the last of my Right Way decisions for a while. For the next six years, I chose the Easy Way. The Easy Way is all about ME – how do I do as little as possible? This is the path for those who never take any chances, live their lives without success as their goal. Instead, they spend their time just trying not to fail. They never volunteer, take responsibility or hold themselves accountable.
Basically, the Easy Way is… EASY—or at least it gives that appearance. The Easy Way is a very SELFISH way to try and live your life and leads us to becoming spoiled, immature, grown-up brats! You can never learn anything or grow as a man or a woman living and making decisions based on what is the Easy Way for Me.
The Right Way looks like the hard way and can be very deceiving to us when making decisions. I have made many more Easy Way decisions in my life than I have the Right Way, but the ones I did Right have been a GOLD MINE to me and continue to produce long after.
After our worst business failure 10 years ago, we decided to recover the Right Way. We did not file Bankruptcy, but instead worked the next 10 years trying to pay off and recover from losing everything. This was the Right Way for us and might not be for you. I needed to go through the process and pain of paying everything back, working out payments with creditors, and taking responsibility for my mistakes.
I could have filed bankruptcy, but that would have robbed me of all that I learned over the last ten years and all that I have become because of the struggle to clean up the massive mess of failing at business. My family lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, our home, cars, and we had years of terrible credit, but because we decided to do it the Right Way, we gained MILLIONS of dollars worth of knowledge and strength!
If I was given the option to go back and make the decision over again to either file bankruptcy, keep our home and cars and get the pain over with quickly or go through the long process by ourselves, I WOULD STILL DO IT THIS WAY! The Easy way would have been a quick fix with NO lasting benefit and would have felt good in the short run, but the Right Way, which hurt in the short run, has paid off a hundredfold in the long run.
Every day you will stand at a cross road, faced with the decision between the Easy Way or the Right Way. Take it from this old man who has spent far too many years of his life choosing the Easy Way that it is a BIG FAT LIE. It isn’t easy at all. I encourage you to choose the Right Way.
Find Your Passion and You Will Find Your Life!