DeepThinking - Silly Little Work Things

I love being distracted by silly little things. Filling out a bank form and sending it off. Cleaning my candle stand of wax. Wiping away those annoying smears near my kitchen trash - all worthy causes in their own right, but totally useless to my mission. I get even more keen when I have a lot on my plate. Hmmm. Why do I do them? Why do you do yours? (Or have you got all this figured out already?) As I watch my behaviour from the 80|20 perspective (80% of my mission success will result from 20% of everything I do) I can see this behaviour as almost deliberately distracting - like I want it that way, even need it that way. How is that serving me? It serves to distract me from my mission, which itself can overwhelm and frighten me by the self-assigned magnitude I give it. Lama Yeshe always taught: Think Big. So I do. And I frighten my Self in the process! Self-defeating? Perhaps I need to downsize my mission? I believe I am an ordinary person, trying to do an extraordinary thing. I want to wash the dishes, clean the kitchen and feel the satisfaction of this everyday activity. There's no right or wrong here - I continue to love cleaning, sometimes - it is simply information. It's worth watching how you use time to discover where you support you, and where you don't. You love silly little things? You can fill the day with them too I guess. But not all the day. Not all the time. Leave time for your mission. It's your 20%, then let the rest do itself. It will anyway.