“I have a ‘Play The Melody’ philosophy. It means don’t over-arrange,don’t make life difficult. Just play the melody – and do it the simplest way possible.”
– Jackie Gleason
I have a tendency to want to prepare for every possibility. What if this or that happens? Then what will we do? If there are twenty potential outcomes, I have twenty potential plans. Of course, only one outcome actually happens (or in many cases, something I never considered at all), and then I have done a whole lot of arranging for nothing. Whatever happens will get here soon enough for us to deal with it. There is so much that actually must be done, why make it all more complicated and difficult than it has to be?