The Easy way or the Hard Way?

If there are 99 ways to do a thing right, and one of doing it wrong, guess which is usually tried first... :)

I'm not an adventurous person so I pick the easy way.

I think most of us pick what we think is the easiest way out of something. But often the way that seemed to be the easiest turns out to have been the hard way all along. If we had chosen the one that we thought would take more time energy and cost turns out to have been the easy way all along :D

I chose the hard way when I decided to teach Research Methods a could of years ago. I knew I needed a new challenge at the College where I teach. I chose the easy way when I decided to miss about half of the softball games for the two teams I play for this Summer. I had too much going on with music, and didn't want to burden myself with another obligation.

Thought-provoking post. As we get older and stiffer we're always looking for easy ways but mostly it's to do with physical stuff. I guess sometimes I'll give in to a person's idea rather than have a big fight about doing it the way I think it should be done.

I prefer doing things the easy way but most of the time it's the hard way. It isn't easy thinking out of box. Sometimes I wish I have learned things in life without doing much effort.

My life!

Well, it depends on what is the right way. If the right way is the easy way, I will definitely choose that path. If hard way is the right way, then I have to choose the hard way.

I always try to find the easy way to do things, but for some unknown reason, my husband always pick up the hard way.

I always try to avoid the hard way. It sometimes doesn't work out

It depends, I usually go for the path of least resistance. And always have a backup plan

That's an awesome question that deserves a long winded answer, ha ha! I've been reading lately about developing hardihood, about purposely picking the hard way for things. Like Theodore Roosevelt, "choosing the Strenuous Life." The two "hard way" things I've done recently are both related to health. One, I've decided to get up a half hour early and take a walk most mornings. Oddly, that "hard way" seems to make the rest of the day go more easily. Two, I started ending my hot showers with a cold blast to really wake myself up. But that's kind of fun so I don't know if it's the hard way. Honestly, many times if you take the hard route, you will just end up having an easier time later on.

It depends, if it can be done with easy way, I would for sure do it the easy way and not the hard way.

I say that to my kids. Easy way=my way, hard way=consequences for not doing it my way :) And of course they have chosen the hard way at times.

I'm not very good at problem solving or organizing really... so I often choose what I think is easy.... and someone comes along and says .., why didn't you do it like this.... it would have been much easier and quicker...?? but sometimes it is better to choose to take a bit longer to do something a slightly different way which may appear harder ... but in the long run is much better for what you want....

I thought I was taking the easy way to church this morning. It turned out to be the hard way as I got lost getting there.

My whole life has been one hard way...