What is the balance between effort and allowing or acceptance? For in this is the secret to live your live to the fullest?

Effort and allowing. Well it takes effort to allow and to allow the right way takes no effort as it is a surrender. Effort, the right effort is always striving to do your best and to learn the most from your experience and life. Allowing life is then to accept that you are only a part of life and that you cannot change all of life to suit you. Effort to do this is misdirected and unbalancing for you. And you really need to allow portions of life to occur and teach you from the very essence of life that they bring to you and not from any effort in forcing life into filling yourself with an essence. And trying then to keep this essence as yours and saying that you are responsible for something that life has provided and the wisdom is actually in life itself and you have just seen it rather that saying you became wise because you invented wisdom from your own efforts. Effort is important and allowing yourself to be balanced in the right direction of this effort is what is important. Self effort is making the energetic effort to follow the trail of life and of truth because you know the effort is worthwhile not because you want a reward from all that effort. And so life is about allowing the right amount of effort to guide you effortlessly through life and knowing too the balance that comes when effort gives way to silent observing and gentle appreciating that life is better for your effort and so are you.

I'll try to add a little more to this to complete it and show some more facets of this approach?

I have found that living my life fully just overwhelms me sometimes and brings me anxiety. Like right now I have so much to do, so little time to do it. How to decide what to do next? We all need help with this type of position caused perhaps by the steady speeding up of our worlds in this day and age.

The greatest thing you and anyone can do is just to stop trying. Just stop trying to do things or make an effort or do too many things at once. It is always the trying to do things first in your mind that frightens then overwhelms you. No, just start doing one or two simple things. Finish and complete these things first and then move onto the other things then. By all means make a short list of all the things running around in your mind to do. Slow down the running around in your mind by putting them down onto paper the things you

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