I feel like I’m at a railroad changing station. I used to live close enough to the railroad yard to know what that sounds like. Late at night I hear the screeching brakes, high pitched and irritating. That followed by a boom as the train comes to a stop, and a clank, clank as it switches over to a new track. Leaving one track to get on another. That’s what I feel like now.

The trains carrying my projects are in the station and a couple are changing tracks. Priorities  pushing on down the line on a new track. A few others are sidetracked, waiting for their turn. I’m impressed how it’s all about timing. Not priorities, but timing.

Priorities are like me taking action, pushing to make the project come to life. Timing is the world pulling because the universe is ready. It’s good to set priorities, but sometimes we begin to strive and push and get frustrated because we can’t make them happen fast enough. That’s because it’s also about timing. Sometimes the project needs to rest. We need to back off and be content with what we’ve done for the moment. We need to give room for the right time to come along. And when it does, when priorities and timing collide, there is alchemy. It’s magic.

I think that’s where I’m at today. Waiting and resting while my priority projects are marinating, and the world is getting ready to pull them forward. Push and pull. Push and pull. It’s good chemistry.