How Hard Can It Be? 

Being a long-time Top Gear fan, I used to get a kick out of watching Jeremy Clarkson take on seemingly impossible projects, saying “how hard can it be?” Parul and I adopted that line, joking around every time we started a new project. And before I knew it, this innocuous, almost arrogant question became the starting point for most of what we have accomplished today.  
   
Often, all of us find ourselves in situations that seem to have no easy resolution. Sometimes we’re scared of what is to come, sometimes we’re scared of what is being asked of us.  
  
I know – ‘how hard can it be’ is sometimes a reductive or superficial way to look at real-life situations or decisions with real-life repercussions. But many, many times, trivializing the impact of our choice is exactly what needs to be done to convince ourselves to continue on our chosen course.   
  
Because here is the secret: you have to be okay with the knowledge that your decision might not work out exactly the way you want. Once you make that peace with that possibility, you truly start believing that nothing is impossible, and fear stops making your choices for you. That’s how you become unstoppable.   
   
I know I certainly have had my share of tough situation. Whether it was moving back from the US, making the decision of starting a tech company while coming from a design background, or even what seemed then to be roadblocks in my personal life, the decisions I made had a huge impact on the rest of my life. And in all these situations, asking myself these five words was often the jumpstart my imagination needed.   
   
So next time you find yourself stuck in place, or anxious about starting something new, just ask yourself – “how hard can it be?”