You don't notice the plumbing in your home if it is working perfectly. You only notice it when the water backs up. But someone installed those pipes before the house was built. They planned and made decisions on the quality of materials, set dates, and hired workers. You didn't see any of that.
Everything's urgent, everyone's optimized. Everything's gotta come down to the wire. Most everyone is overworked and underpaid. So you don't notice the stuff that isn't urgent.
But take a moment to stop and look out over the horizon, the plains, the Serengeti. Watch the wind blow the trees. Look for the deadline – the danger – long before it comes. Combine this vision with the details of today.
What's the one thing you could do right now that in three months would make a day pass unnoticed? What's the one easy thing you could do today that will eliminate urgency from a day in the future?
What's the one thing you could do right now that in three months would make a day pass unnoticed? What's the one easy thing you could do today that will eliminate urgency from a day in the future?
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The most difficult things in the world
Must be accomplished through the easiest.
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Therefore the Sage
Never attempts great things
And so accomplishes them.
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Thus for the Sage
Everything is difficult,
And in the end
Nothing is difficult.
- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching