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Make things better by making better things.
We spend so much time worrying about how to keep things from falling apart. The cycle of life, however, follows a rhythm. Things come together, and things come apart. Over and over again.
A star is born and then collapses. The forest grows until it burns, and the seeds sprout because of the high temperatures. All the cells in our body regenerate every seven years.
Our first impulse is to try to keep things together. When we invest in these outcomes, we can become disparaged when our world is free-falling. We spend an enormous amount of energy trying to avoid inevitable outcomes.
The trap is that we have convinced ourselves that we can tame our world. We can get to inbox zero or finish the work week and then start to live.
The alternative, then, is to learn to be comfortable in a world of chaos, where order is the exception.