My most important task today was arranging an interview with an imam I met in June at ISAM. I had been meaning to contact him for a while, but I didn’t realize until today that emailing him wasn’t the next action. Once I sorted out what needed to be done first, I added the tasks to my list, did some related work, and then left the library to get lunch.
When I came back to the library, I found the imam I wanted to talk with sitting with his laptop in the seat next to mine. I hadn’t emailed or called him, but somehow we ended up sitting at the same 2-person desk…and suddenly my time table and next actions flew out the window.
My next action had found me.
It couldn’t have worked out better — he had an hour free that afternoon, we had a great chat, and I learned a lesson about taking action before feeling like everything is set up just right.
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That just shows you: there is never a “right time” to do things. Things will reveal themselves to you in the order they are supposed to happen….not according to your list, schedule or plan.
Silly humans. We think we are in charge of so much.
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