Well the path to non-action

Yesterday one interesting thought came to me how to achieve non-action .

As you know, non-action is when everything happens as it should, and you do nothing at the same time.

In the Chinese tradition, it is believed that the wisest king is not the one who fusses and tries to control everything personally, but the one who set up everything in such a way that the state machine works fine without him, and he, meanwhile, is inactive .

Here is what Lao Tzu's “Tao Te Ching” does not do (§ 37):

The Tao constantly carries out non-action, but there is nothing
like that, no matter what it does. If you know, and the sovereigns will
observe it, then all creatures will change by themselves.

The non-action formula is successfully confirmed by modern management, which recommends delegating as much as possible various non-core activities, in particular turnover, so that there is time for strategic matters.

So the insight was this: if you want to achieve non-action, then

Complete more work than start!

So what about the craving for new projects? Is it really a 100% harmful thing?
Fortunately, there is a way to make this craving work for your own purposes!

I love to start many new projects. And now, as always, I want to start another one. This time I use the craving for a new project as a motivation to complete 3 old projects. I decided that I would start a new project only when I completed 3 old ones.

Links to additional materials on the topic:

• Lao Tzu “Tao Dzing”
  Excellent free video, which explains why and how harmful unfinished business. I will give just one of the ideas of this wonderful video: unfinished business takes place in the brain and forms complexes. I recommend watching everyone. Download: part 1 , part 2 .
  Recently I watched an excellent disc by Yuri Moroz “Thinking” . There I was touched by one strong thought, namely: " The project should be one! ". Indeed, a passion for several projects sprays forces and repeatedly reduces the result. The result is a completed project. Each open new project interferes with the completion of the old, and, accordingly, prevents the achievement of real results.
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