By Michael W. Raley
Before the coffee begins to brew,
The thoughts come rushing in:
“You need to do this today.”
“You have to do this too.”
“Don’t forget about this.”
“You have to do this on Friday.”
“You’ve been putting this off.”
“You’re out of this, you need to get it today.”
“You should have started the day earlier.”
The list grows well beyond what I planned.
Stop!
Close your eyes and breathe.
Come back to this moment.
Close the mental browsers that don’t need to be open.
Step back and reason through this.
Focus on one and only one task,
Then move on to the next task.
Gradual momentum and gradual goals,
Just as you would read a book:
Words become sentences, sentences become paragraphs, then pages, then chapters,
Then the book will be finished and will be on the shelf with the other finished books.
Triumphant In Christ 