There’s this coffee shop that bakes the best homemade biscuits , just down the street from my house. It always has a line out the door. I avoided trying it for years as it just seemed like a huge hassle.
Then one day I gave it a try. I arrived early, right when they opened, to try and beat the line. I got in right away, but immediately noticed – the place is tiny inside. I noticed, as there’s no place for a line to form inside, it formed outside. What seemed like a huge mass of people was really just a few people standing outside. The line moved fast too. It was no worse than any line at a busy Starbucks.
If something appears like a hassle, or too time consuming, or you are otherwise making a judgement based on face value properties – sometimes it pays to dig a bit deeper to confirm their validity first. I’m often surprised that what seemed too hard, or complicated, or time consuming on paper was all just imagined.