What Would Be Easy?

The first joy experiment: why ease is a better engine than discipline, and how to choose it.I wanted a cut flower garden for three years and did absolutely nothing about it, until I asked myself the question I've been putting to my clients for over a decade: what would be easy? ( £80 and 2 pre-treated wood 'build-your-own' kits later, I had one.)This is the first of the Season 4 joy experiments, and it's a big one: choosing ease and joy on purpose, and why that's a better engine than discipline.In this episode:• The two questions that change the energy you bring to just about everything, and why that energy is so important.• The dog-training science behind my dislike of the word discipline, drawn from years working with Victoria Stilwell• The honest caveat about joy vs comfort• Why frameworks make better scaffolding than gospel, and the human design insight (with Jazze Jervis) that reorganised how I work• Real "what would be easy" decisions, from the flat-pack flower beds to where values complicate convenienceLINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/FZgvz4V7VfsHow and why I ditched discipline: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZMyoCCsyN-/Forbes article | Comfort & Joy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nelldebevoise/2026/06/09/comfort-and-joy-are-not-what-you-think/Find your colour personality type (the quiz): https://go.jnicholesmith.com/quizGo deeper with us on Substack @joyfirstworld: https://joyfirstworld.substack.comFree Summer Alignment Sessions on alignment: https://go.joyfirstworld.com/summerOur Joy First Founders' Circle community: https://go.joyfirstworld.com/jffcJazze's free 'Find your Human Design' tool: https://www.jazzejervis.com.au/generate-your-chart-nic If this resonated, subscribe and leave a review. It helps more people find their way to a bit more joy.With love, xx Nic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.