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Focus On the One Thing In Front of You Now


So what can I ‘choose’ now? Do I want the rest of this (seeming endless at this point) day to be about trudging along, working on the chain gang? Or can I choose to make it something else? What if I look at it as a flow of work instead of a huge endless to do list? What if I decide to just look at the one thing in front of me and do that and then think about the rest? Is that possible?

I can only find out if I try. That is what I can do. So right now, just for now this minute, this hour I will look at what I am doing next – the next thing – and only that next thing and that means no peeking ahead and no worrying ahead. Okay. Here goes –one thing at a time. Do one thing at a time and only think about one thing at a time. And somehow I feel like there is plenty of time. I can just focus on what is in front of me and trust.

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