Do the Difficult Things While They Are Easy

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lau Tzu

An article by Brad Stulberg, “Show Up. Mood Follows ActionShow Up. ”, discusses how you can’t cause change by thinking about it, you need to do it. The first step is to just start doing it, whatever that is. And, as the great quote maker Yogi Berra once said, “when you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

About the author

Lao Tzu (/ˈlaʊ ˈtsuː, -ˈdzʌ/), also rendered as Laozi (UK: /ˌlaʊˈzɪər/; Chinese: 老子, Mandarin: [làu.tsɹ̩]; commonly translated as “Old Master”) and Lao-Tze (/ˈlaʊ ˈdzeɪ/), was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.