You can focus on whatever you want to focus on. Focus means to put your attention on. Put your attention on where you want it to be. Your tendency may be to go off on tangents. Your tendency may be to go off to what is less important, because what is less important may come in with a loud voice or be right in front of you. Remember that you are the chooser. You choose to go every-which-way, or you choose to focus on that which matters. You may love everything that pops up at you and want to respond to all, yet perhaps it is time that you learned to prioritize, unless, of course, you prefer to put off that which is more important in favor of the lesser things that pull you toward them.

You can decide what is most important, and you can put your attention there. You are not at the whim of every Tom, Dick, or Harry or every email that comes your way. You are, it would appear, at the whim of yourself. I know it is quandary for you. Do what you love to do is a good refrain, yet do not while away your time on what diverts you from your purpose.

There is such a fine line between what matters and what you might like to do at a given moment.

If you have to work for a living, you have to work for a living. Can you play all day?

You may think that something is most important for you to do, yet if you choose less important things to take care of first, what have you decided is most important to you? Fooling around may be more important to you. Getting more done may be more important to you than doing what may be your main responsibility.

Everyone on Earth needs a day off now and then, and I suggest you take it. I also suggest that you get your work done. And if you have too many things to do, make your choices, dear ones, and do not blame your lack of focus on time or everything else you have to do. You are understanding what I am saying, aren’t you?

Good for you if you can make every responsibility play! Then take your major responsibilities as play, and play them well, and play them first. Everything you have to do cannot be essential. What would happen if you didn’t do some of the things you insist you must? The world will still revolve. The Universe does not hinge on you. Well, yes, in a way, it does, yet the non-essentials will somehow take care of themselves.

There is a lot to be said about not taking life too seriously. I tell you that often. Of course, I do not mean that you can let everything slide all the time! I encourage you to take care of what most needs to be taken care of. Take days off, but not everyday, yet be sure to take days off.

Roll with the tide. Do not swim against it, and yet do that which merits doing.

I will not point any fingers, but I know someone who may do well to consider where her time goes, and I may ask: Do you put your time where it makes the most sense, or are you simply taking the line of least resistance? It is good not to resist, and yet you may put some things aside in order to take care of others. Of course, I love you as you are, I love you regardless of anything, yet dallying and delay do not begin to be who you are.