The Power You Give Away When You Avoid the Hard Road
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The Silent Surrender
Most people don’t realize they’re doing it, but day after day, choice after choice, they give away pieces of themselves.
Not to thieves or tyrants. But to comfort.
They think they’re preserving energy. They think they’re protecting themselves from pain. But what they’re really doing is selling their strength for the illusion of safety.
Every time you sidestep the difficult path, you trade your birthright–your literal destiny–for a moment’s ease.
Looking the Hard Road in the Eye
The hard road isn’t there to punish you. It’s there to Forge you. Like the fire and the blacksmith forge steel with flames and hammer.
The moments you turn away from it–avoiding the conversation you need to have, skipping the work you know would change you, staying in the role that keeps you small—you hand your power to the very thing you’re afraid of.
The hard road calls you forward. Not because it’s cruel, but because it’s the only path that can Forge you into the person with enough strength to carry the weight of who you’re meant to become.
The Power Is in the Walking
Power doesn’t come from control, comfort, or avoidance. It comes from doing the thing you didn’t think you could do, and realizing afterward that you’re not the same person who began.
Avoid the hard road, and you stay exactly as you are. You remain weak in the same places and bound by the same fears.
Take it, and you reclaim the strength you’ve been surrendering to your excuses.
Choosing the Road Today
Think of the thing you’ve been avoiding.
The decision that scares you. The step that feels too steep.
That’s the road.
Walk it, and you’ll find your power waiting for you on the other side. Refuse it, and you’ll keep giving it away—piece by piece—until you forget you ever had it.
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