Stop, collaborate and Listen!

So how important is planning every detail of our lives.  I have always considered myself a 'planning person', who tries to consider every action, permeation, emotion and who tends to worry about all the small details in life, like how it will affect others, what the consequences could be and  what the perfect timing might be to say, or do something.  I worry a lot  about deadlines and future requirements and very seldom allow myself to be caught, without having considered, at least half a dozen results.  But surely I have realised that there needs to be a balance between being prepared and spending so much time in the planning phase that you miss out on the things that you can achieve right now.  I have often not allowed myself the opportunity to embrace what lies in my day today, because I am worried about what will happen tomorrow.  It is not morbid but rather realistic to think that, what if tomorrow never comes?  Will I have spent so much time planning for a day, which never comes.  It is certainly wise especially in business to budget and prepare goals at  the beginning of a new year, but we can become so drawn to the act of planning, that we miss the enjoyment of meeting the day expectantly, but without knowing or thinking we know what it will hold.  Being so well prepared, does not guarantee success, or the result exactly as we had hoped, so surely it is a more acceptable way to wake up, give thanks that you have made it to today and then begin minute by minute to enjoy whatever lies in your path for the day, whether it be traffic, or difficult people, or unexpected tasks, or even unexpected success and enjoyment.  I am not advocating being careless and without thought, but to stop taking all the expected things and to give yourself a chance to live the unexpected and to relish the opportunities we are given to daily to make a difference and bless others and be blessed ourselves.  A happy day is one well lived and a day well lived can be exactly the catalyst to waking to a better tomorrow and a future, which is bearable and fulfilling.  So plan only tomorrow, to do what you can and take time to stop at things which are good and to celebrate them for the joy they bring now and not what they may bring in the future (which will take care of itself).