Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you like to take shortcuts?

So do I.

In fact, I would say that I'm a productivity queen because I know when to take savvy shortcuts, largely through learning through other people's

mistakes and taking advice from people whose success I would like to emulate in different areas.

But my friends, can there be a dark side two shortcuts? Yes, if laziness is driving them. It's very different to be

strategic versus be lazy. Stick with me. I have an incredible fable for you today.

It's called The Widow and Her Little Maidens. And if you want to get Asop's Fables, head to Amazon.

Type in Asop's Fables, Susie Moore, and you can get my self-published version, which has been

translated directly from the Greek original. Okay, my friends, here it is, the widow and her little

maidens. A widow, fond of cleaning,

had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning

at Cockrow. The maidens, being aggrieved by such excessive labour, resolved to kill the cock

who roused their mistress so early.

When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared themselves for greater troubles.

For their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the clock, no longer hearing the hour from the cock,

woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.

What does this mean for you, my friends? Are you trying? Are we trying sometimes to escape

small inconveniences by creating, in fact, bigger problems down the road. Look, I am someone who skips

steps if I don't think they're necessary or if I think there's something that I might already know.

I will not, however, skip a step if I'm brand new to something, I will practice humility and learn.

It's not my favorite thing. It's probably not your

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