Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Yesterday, I wrote about the to and fro of the dual world – all insides have outsides and all backgrounds have foregrounds, etc. The same is true of something you find difficult. The only way that you could know it to be difficult is if ease were hiding within it. Where does the ease hide, when something appears insurmountable? It hides in getting started, right on the edge of inertia.
Just about anything of worth will be difficult – getting fit; building wealth; starting a business; finding a lasting relationship; or writing a book. There is a built-in resistance to taking on something on a grand scale. But that so-called barrier is very thin. Sometimes you have to step over the barrier just one inch to get to the proverbial response, “Once I got started, it didn’t seem that bad, and it magically began to fall into place.”
Just on the other side of what seems difficult is that “ah ah” moment when you realize there is something rather simple to it – step one. Taking one step is easy, but before you do, dial it back in your mind. What seems like a grand scale becomes a small scale, when you slice it up. Cleaning up a “big mess” is as simple as picking up the first object. The entire mess is difficult; but the first step is never. Anything that is difficult can be sliced into tiny, digestible bits. I’m writing a book right now, and sometimes it seems “difficult.” But when I back up and write a sentence or two, it gets easy. The next thing you know, there is a paragraph, then a chapter, etc. A big undertaking is difficult, until you learn the ease of slicing it up. Remember, you would have never seen the difficulty if the first slice weren’t right in front of you. It’s as easy as taking it.