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Doing Without Doing
Who is doing the doing?
If you’d asked me a few years ago who was doing the doing, I’d have said “me”. No doubt about it. It looked, for a long time, like I was in control.
Maybe not completely, of course, there are other people and circumstances outside my immediate control, but it probably would have looked as if “I” had to switch on the engine, point the car and start driving.
Then I realised that things continue to happen, better things even, when I take my hand off the steering wheel.
I’d always had a sense of this but sometimes it looked like prevarication, and that was uncomfortable.
I should just decide!
Looked like a better option.
Turned out that isn’t the case, though. It’s amazing how different that looks to me now. How much easier it is in every single aspect of my life to know that I’ll always know what to do.
The idea of ‘doing without doing’ doesn’t mean I don’t do anything; it doesn’t mean I sit around and wait for inspiration.
It just means that I know that I can get in the car and the set the GPS — whether or not I know where to go before I get in the car.
I’ve had such a nice day and I thought I was going to spend all day cleaning,
