Planners and Procrastinators

From the Daniloff Tarot, the Eight of Staves; from the Kuan Yin Oracle, "Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold" (verse 78):

Are you a planner or a procrastinator? Do you get started weeks or months beforehand, determined to have our ducks in a row when the deadline arrives, or do you wait until the last moment and spring into action? Either way, there's a good chance that things will happen differently than assumed. Yet the Kuan Yin verse suggests there is a middle way:

You shouldn't heat chilly water

until it turns to steam.

Not too hot, not too cold -

warm water is just the right thing.

Some preparation without over-planning and causing ourselves too much worry sounds about right. As Thomas Merton said, "Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."