People in various
12-step programs are often proponents of an unassuming acronym
known as K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Sweetheart).
Others are impressed
at just how easily (and how well) problems get handled when we
deal with them one at a time.
In our increasingly
technical world, we're surrounded by examples but don't always
recognize them: Nuclear energy (which is the most complicated,
dangerous, and expensive way of boiling water yet devised), jet
propulsion (which really is rocket science, but simple enough
if you take it one step at a time), computer systems design (a
mind-bogglingly-complex substitute for thinking built entirely
of ones and zeros), even getting sober (let me count the ways...not
to).
Maybe that's
why it's so easy to get lost in details and processes today,
and maybe, too, that's why so many of us miss the point of what
we want our lives to be about.
Next time you
find that you're intellectualizing yourself into or out of a
problem or situation, KISS yourself, instead.
It really
is that simple, sweetheart.