My super secret to getting things done: Don’t.

We’re raised to work. Go to school, go to college, get a job. Work for forty years, save some money, retire.

I did all that. By 50 I was ready to retire. But I didn’t. I moved into new fields and countinued growing, learning, getting better at my work.

I learned a couple things. First, truth is I’ve never worked a day in my life. I just went places I thought we’re interesting and asked for a job. I worked props in shows, lights in concerts, cashier in a bookstore, I fixed guitars in a guitar repair workshop, worked craft tables at film shoots, wrote radio ads, did voices for cartoons and wrote music for television.

Since I was a kid I’ve always been interested God. Not any particular flavor of God. Just God generally. I’ve spent most of my life dancing with the universe. I’ve stood on the shore and gazed out to the ocean vastness and wondered. I’ve climbed to the top of the mountain and looked up at the infinite stars above. I’ve read dozens of books, tracts, and guides. God and how God works has always fascinated me.

The reason why I mention those two things, God and work, is because they came together for me recently in an interesting way.

It occurred to me the Tao Te Ching, an ancient text from China, has as a central idea — Do Nothing. Like the single note of…