Half of what God asks of you will show up disguised as an interruption to your plans.

Your plan and the day’s actual assignment often disagree. The person who needs something at the wrong moment, the conversation that cannot wait, the problem that lands when you had structured the afternoon, those are usually experienced as obstacles to the real work rather than as the work. A great deal of what matters arrives with bad timing.

Build margin into the week so an interruption is not a catastrophe. When one comes, pause long enough to ask whether this is the actual thing. Some are not, and you will know the difference more often than you think.