"this wrong thinking brings upon us all our troubles" (Emmet Fox)
The trouble is the disturbance; and the trouble is also all that flows from that disturbed perspective, because I always act from the perspective from which I am looking.
Today, the deal with God is this:
I am not to think about me
I am not to think about the future
I am not to think about the past
I am not to think about the world, its people, its trends, its phenomena
I am not to read the signs, the runes, the augurs, the entrails, the hot wax dropped in water, the crisping of the seaweed, or any other means of attempting predicting the future
That leaves only God and the task at hand.
The key recognition: the thinker's broken; pick it up and plug it in and I'll get an electrical shock.
I've pulled the plug out of the wall and have tidied it away so I won't trip over it.
If God really does need me to do something unexpected to change the course of my life, it will be made super obvious, so obvious I cannot miss it.
Doing the next right thing is always entirely sufficient.
Dummying down is really clevering up, upwards to God.