Being out of shape is hard. Getting in shape is hard. Choose your hard.
Being broke is hard. Building wealth is hard. Choose your hard.
Staying in a bad situation is hard. Making a change is hard. Choose your hard.
Life offers no easy paths, only different difficulties. The question is not how to avoid hard things but which hard things to choose. Some difficulties lead somewhere. Others just perpetuate themselves.
What hard thing are you choosing that leads somewhere better?