Each day reflect on the day ahead, keeping a wide-open heart and mind. Before retiring reflect on what you have done. If you did something you aspired to do even once, rejoice in that. If you went against your aspiration, rejoice that you can see what you did.
If there is a personal desire to do something and preparation has been made, if nature or something else beyond your control happens, you must bow to that change and nature. Knowing how to put aside personal priorities to fill the demands of the times is among the greatest of skills.
Let go of all desires, detach yourself from all things, dissolve all duality, the idea of good and bad, beautiful, and ugly etc., practice undiscriminating virtue to everything and everybody. These practices are the beginning of liberation and a harmonious oneness with the universe.
We should do each task for its own sake, without thinking of the end result. We should do our tasks with the demands of the times in mind and not be influenced by others. Then each task we undertake will easily accomplish what we have set out to do.
Quote: Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Rumi