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24. Cycling Along On A Time Stage

All the world's a stage.

W. Shakespeare

Will was right. This earthly stage is a time stage and that means that all actions are limited by time. All actions from the overall one of your life to any action within it are circumscribed by time. So any finished action can be described as a 'cycle of completion' with a beginning, middle, and an end to the cycle.

The idea is the start, the middle is the doing and the end comes when you can't (or won't) do any more. Maximum joy is attained when the thinking is increased in the middle part: the doing part. The operative thought is, "Am I doing my best?"

The idea's nice and the completion is nice but the middle part is the most significant for your happiness. And that's because very few cycles get completed. Most cycles are interrupted ones with the doing part stopped before completion. How you handle the interruption is very important to your happiness.

Some people regard their time-stage as a theater featuring tragedies (or at best tragi-comedies) because of the uneasy feelings that accompany unfinished cycles. Less than a third of all action cycles, I'm guessing, get completed. Most of the time you must leave one thing and do something else and original cycles are left incomplete. Uneasy feelings convince these people that their role on the stage is a sad one.

Changing incomplete cycles to 'mini-cycles' can change this role. Unfinished cycles get transformed when the unfinished parts are left in a good place and all neatly tied up. The transformation occurs because actions neatly tied up have a much higher probability of becoming completed and they are left with your true and clear intention to complete them. You have completed as much as possible* in the time available, the uneasiness leaves, and you get the mini-payoff for your mini-completion.

The end of an exterior action cycle occurs when you can't or won't do any more. It is a simple fact that doing your best equals not being able to do more. You simply can't do any more than your best. Doing the best you can has many benefits but the main one is that it continually changes interrupted cycles into completed, 'mini', ones.

And that's why the satisfaction of doing your best is actually superior to the satisfaction of completion. Tying things up shows you have done your best in the time allowed by you for the job. And you (you angel you) can't think an action is fully completed unless you have done your best.

Maximum happiness lies in doing your best. Then your cycles and mini-cycles are complete. You can't be 'completely' happy doing less than your best. Doing your best takes focusing and time and preparation and practice. I know that and so do you; but that's another story. All I want to show here is exactly where happiness lies and how to get it.

Incidentally, the uneasiness departs for a very interesting reason and I think I know why. The uneasy feeling is a spiritual cue, i.e., 'heavenly' guidance, coming at you. You get this cue because of who you are and what you're doing. Your overall assignment here on the earth-plane is to experience life happily. You are an 'Experiencor' and that assignment demands that you get the most out of your experiences. When you don't complete a cycle you don't get the full experience. You haven't fully experienced what you wanted to experience and you get this uneasy cue to remind you of your job.

*How much is possible is an individual determination. It's a 'judgement call' and you are the judge. My recommendation is to make your best possible call and forget it. If the call is really difficult and there's time, I solicit advice (from happy people).

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