It's normal to feel overwhelmed by the hard things in life, from the big, weighty challenges to the everyday frustrations. But lately doesn't it seem like we're feeling this way a lot more often than we used to. The problem isn't a lack of motivation or effort; if it were, we would already have achieved all our goals. The problem is that motivation and effort are limited resources. And the more we deplete them, the more burnt out we get, making it even harder to produce the results we want. There is a better way: We can make the most essential tasks the easiest ones.