So far, in my fifty plus years of living, the hardest lesson to learn has been knowing when to press the throttle and when to press the brake. A lesson that is still playing out.

Like everyone, information is continuously flowing past my senses. Most of it goes by unnoticed. Some of it gets my attention and I have to make a choice as to what to do with it: do I engage it, store it away, or let it go.

I know people who only know throttle; like it is stuck on. I know people who store everything away like a chipmunk. And I know people who have their brakes constantly on and smoking. I don’t know which is worse; they are all equally bad I suspect.

What I have come up with is that there are things that I wish to be a part of and responsible for, things I do not wish to be a part of or responsible for, and things I would like to be a part of and responsible for, but only when the time is right for me. Only when what I have to offer is at its highest potential. The first requires throttle, the second brakes, and the third requires storing the information away for later use.

The hardest scenario for me is information from something I engaged with earlier and set to motion, and some progress has been made and still ongoing, but it is uncertain that it is time for me to apply more energy yet… if at all.

The risk is that I get caught in a cycle of saying or doing the same thing over and over again. Where the throttle is all the way on, but the wheels are just spinning in mud… making ruts that are near impossible to get out of.

I have developed a process that seems to work for me. It is largely intuitive, involving a process of looking at the thoughts that are flowing through my mind as they are the shadows of the information that has got my attention. So, I am sorry that I do not have any Pro-Tip Life Hack for you.