Is it, Simply Complicated, or Complicatedly Simple?

The title of this post might sound like a lot of nonsense, but I do think that there is something to it. It’s a kind of, is the glass half empty of half full post.
(No, I’m not listening to the engineer who thinks that the glass is twice as big than it needs to be. 🙂 )

In all tasks, we can normally see parts that are complicated and simple in varying measures. The question is, how are you left feeling about the task at hand?

Are you left thinking, “This is simply complicated!” ? Or can you flip it around, to then be left thinking, “This is just complicatedly simple.”?
The order you place the two words in, can make a big difference.

If you see an issue as simply complicated, then it’s seeing, that there are some simple bits, but the overall impression is one of, “It’s too difficult!” It can leave us in a position of, “Where do I go now?”

If we can flip the two words around, so we then have “complicatedly simple”, then can we change our perspective?
The complications remain, but if we can break down what we need to do to smaller manageable pieces, or even just the next bit to do, then can we see the simple bits that we can do, even though the whole picture remains a bit complicated?
Hence we can end up with something that is “Complicatedly Simple”, where we can see what the next steps are.

So, when difficulties arrive, how will we see them?
Are they simply complicated?
Or can we flip it around to be Complicatedly Simple?