Overcome Anything: Mastering Difficulty

Practice no-action;
Attend to do-nothing;
Taste the flavorless,
Magnify the small,
Multiply the few,
Return love for hate.
Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;
Deal with the great while it is yet small;
The difficult develops naturally from the easy,
And the great from the small;
So the sage, by dealing with the small,
Achieves the great.
Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;
Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;
The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.

Tao Te Ching – Peter Merel’s Interpolation

The idea of the Empty Mind Pathway that I?m developing or just Getting Things Done in general is to practice ?no-action?. Make your life as effortless as possible.

Breaking down your life into the 6 level road map (life purpose, 3-5 year goals, 1-2 year goals, current responsibilities, projects and actions) allows you to know yourself. To make the huge enormity of your life into something you can handle.

To master the art of the ?empty mind? (as I would put it) you must divide the big projects (i.e. like life) into smaller pieces, and divide those again until at last it becomes ?nothing?.

?So the sage, by dealing with the small,
Achieves the great.?

This emptying allows you to fully master yourself. Thus ?recognize difficulty, and so has none.? At last you know your surroundings and thus control the situation.

- Sunny Lam

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