You’re entitled to the joy of work, you’re just not entitled to the results. – Larry Brilliant
My train of thought this morning goes something like, “Shit, I’ve got a lot to do, I’ll never get it all done today, where do I start, I better get going, why am I delaying, etc.” I’m tense. If my head was on straight, the my thoughts would be more like “Aaah, today is going to be a great day, there are so many things to do that I either enjoy doing or that make me grateful for what I have.”
So the way I’m handling this is evidently mistaken. I don’t know if there’s any big emotional issue related to my tendency to get irritated when I have a lot to do. Probably. But I don’t have time to dig into it. Hey, I’m busy! So the hell with the navel-gazing today. Instead, I’ll just try to change my attitude towards the whole day and each activity and see what happens. Oh, and ask for some help to pull it off. And as soon as I wrote that, what came to me was the quote from Larry Brilliant and now I have my Joe to Go for the day. I used this quote once before back on Nov. 15 but there’s no rule that says I can’t use them twice, especially when they drop into my brain like today.
So today, I’ll try to remember that I’m entitled to enjoy the whole damn day, but I’m not entitled to getting it all done or having it all turn out exactly like I want it to.