Today's inspiration: B. B. King (and the lovely Lucille, too)

I have a lot to do today. Actual work. An assignment given to this agency by a long-standing client, one that I really enjoy working with.

I also have a necessary, albeit expensive, dental appointment which means that I have to leave early. I will have to somehow figure out how to make the deadlines and tend to the gaping hole in my mouth.

Normally I would be stressing about this, but today I'm grateful for it. I have a lot of things on my mind right now … big things that are making me sad and sapping my energy. I don't mean to sound like Scarlett O'Hara, but I simply can't afford to think about them today. And it's not like anything will be resolved in a day by my fixating or ruminating or awfulizing.

So I will gratefully concentrate on my work. I will try to remain in constant motion so I won't be tempted to fixate or ruminate or awfulize. And I will take inspiration from my favorite old B.B. King recording. The one where he sings:

"Better not look down, if you want to keep on flying
Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead.
Better not look back, or you might just wind up crying.
You can keep it moving, if you don't look down."