‘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 I 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 already so much that actually must be done – why make life more complicated and difficult than it has to be by trying to prepare for stuff that will probably never happen?