Do What You Are Doing
What you are doing right now is probably what you should be doing. Let your mind rest. The universe has more to do with handing you your reality than you might think. We are still hounded by our Puritan backgrounds. Those backgrounds still come to us in schizophrenic ways like: whatever you are doing, you ought to be doing something else. Second guessing yourself is a real waste of time on this one. True, you could be doing a number of other things, but you are doing right now what you are doing. More forces have gone into that than you can imagine. Relax. Do the task you are doing and go to the next one. Stop looking over your shoulder for some sort of divine approval from the skies.
God will give you your day. It will probably not come in the sequence you think it ought. It will have interruptions and throw you some curveballs, but that is the day ahead. Toss “should” and “ought” quickly. The day will be what it will be. There is no paranoid parent standing over you critiquing what you are doing. Focus on the task and get to the next one. In between, prop up your feet and defy the little demanding voices in your head to budge you from your comfortable position. Taking the break will help you discern what really is next.
Just because the phone rings, does not mean you have to answer it. You pay the phone bill for YOUR convenience — not to be a slave to its demands. Never forget who pays the bill. Remind yourself of this the next time you take your car in to be serviced.
I used to have a sign on the workroom wall that said: “Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.” I live by that like it was the eleventh commandment. Never make another person’s crisis your crisis. Do what you can to help, but do not cheat them out of the crisis that is theirs. It is there for a reason. Do not interfere with the process of life’s lessons that belong to others by rescuing them. That only makes them seek a more dramatic same-life lesson. Just do what you are doing. You will know when to help and when to stay out of their business.
