“How we do anything 

is how we do everything.”

Flitting like a hummingbird on a nectar high, our mind alights one second on the news we are hearing on the TV, the next to what we’ll have for dinner tomorrow, then quickly on to what on earth is our neighbor doing to produce such strange noises. All these are going on as our computer beckons—while the work we are supposed to be doing remains untouched. Then our spouse fumes and frets because we are not helping to clean the house.

The saying “How we do anything is how we do everything” cautions us that everything we do does indeed matter. Procrastination and delays will get us nowhere. Literally and metaphorically. The needed action still requires us to do something about it and we need to work on it.

And so we would do well to ask ourselves, Do I honestly want to stay this way, the way I am? And what about the rest of my life? Do I have good habits? Am I a good role model? Or a repeat time-waster? Hopefully, we’ll prudently choose the way we want to spend our next few minutes.

And the years to come.