"Easy"/"hard" is just projection/thought like anything else.
you can only ever engage in anything headfirst and NOW.

Doing anything sideways, rationalizing with "I will be better/ready/skilled etc *tomorrow/later* if I do x/y/z" is cope/resistance and therefore only perpetuating the same behaviour.

And the thing is you won't be good/better/more prepared for anything any better/any more than you are right NOW.

If it's not Now, it's never; cliche and true to a fault.
One cannot walk into some sort of "perfect" timing/thing by looking for workarounds or without ever starting.
Do you see how mind fools itself when it resists something owing to fear a.k.a. when it clings to an image of self and fears it might crumble?
When I resign things to time psychologically, I simply abandon understanding the movement within my own thought-feeling landscape.