Something always comes up... Plan for it...

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The process of living life has its realities.  The human body and mind only operate at the level they have evolved to.  They have quirks, in a sense of today, where what they do is suitable for a world 10,000 years ago, but no longer valid for today.  

The only way we can deal with this, obviously, is to look at it when we are in our higher brain and then plan around it, using the reality of human limitations but not being the unthinking victim of them.  

Forrest Gump was the philosophical giant who observed "Sh-- happens."

But the truth is that not much sh-- happens in this world of today.  Nothing bad really happens that is of any real consequence.

Anyway, the idea is to plan taking into account that you are a human, with limitations and realize that you must give up the childish fantasy that you can "have it all".  No, you can't have it all, but you can, if you set it up and orchestrate it, have all that you need to create a super great life!   

Plan your day, with the golden hours used on purpose, but build in breaks for the brain to "relax" and repair and rest itself.  Perhaps you'll get up to the point where if you plan 4 golden hours that you still average about 3.  That is pretty darned good compared to those people who barely seem to manage their lives well enough to have 4 minutes of true thinking time in a day.  

So, as Goldsmith points out in the following article, we would best simply expect that something will happen in life and that something very human will affect us.   Once we learn to be wise, we build in "buffer" time or "allowance for imperfection of life and self" time.  And given that reality, we, allowing for the time that is not needed to accommodate and care for the physical needs of the body and mind, can think out, decide, and direct our lives to create the miracle of an incredible life, in reality....

"The man who does not plan around reality lives in an unreal world (by definition!) that will clash with reality.  The man who rises above it all for awhile and uses his higher brain to figure out what is real and what will probably happen and then plans with that in mind lives a superior, easy, graceful, paced, calm, peace of mind, happy life."

Consider the following article from Marshall Goldsmith.

What to Do When It’s Hard to Get Things Done