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by Timothy A. Pychyl

Confront the Difficult While it is Still Easy

How can we accomplish great tasks?

Published on February 22, 2010 by Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. in Don't Delay

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Chinese characters for Tao Te Ching My post today is short passage taken from the Tao Te Ching. It's a little something for our reflection as we face the tasks ahead of us today.

Confront the difficult
whille it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.

Source
Stephen Mitchell's (translator) Tao Te Ching: A New English Version published by HarperPerennial (1992). The excerpt above is taken from page 63.

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