There is a very special power in learning to let go. By all means decide what you want and go after it but don’t expect to be able to control the process by which it comes to you. The world is far too complex for your conscious mind to take into account every relevant factor to say nothing of the coincidental and accidental.
You simply can’t force change. But change happens regardless. Instead seek to enable the specific changes you want. Guide the process of change in the direction of your desire. Work to clear up the roadblocks that would prevent the changes you want. Work to create as many pathways that the result can come to you by as possible. In short, work to make it easy instead of working to make it happen.
If you make it easy enough the result you want will happen, effortlessly. If you work hard enough everyone will be amazed at how easy things are for you. What is the easiest thing you can do now to move things in the direction you want?
* Special hat tip to Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
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By: The Get of Fenris » Blog Archive » The Discipline of Do Easy on September 29, 2008
at 11:12 am
This is that “Fire and Forget” theory of getting shit done. Open up pathways, but let ‘em come to you. It’s the Art of Memetics meets the Art of War.
By: Cramulus on September 29, 2008
at 11:54 am
Thanks for that! Learning to let go, I’ve come to see, is one of the principles for discovering how, why and where we ‘fit in” to the web of associations. You can’t do it in an office 5 days a week. It’s not about procrastination or laziness though, but flow, insight and doing something with it. It still takes work to make anything worthwhile. As an artist I can’t help but wake up each day and open new eyes.
By: Mark Andresen on September 30, 2008
at 3:13 pm