There is a need to see and label that things are going as they should be.
That everything is smooth sailing, there is no storm, no problem, all is peaceful with the most efficient outcome as one could want.
The issue with a life of smooth sailing is that in order for the sailing to be smooth, then a mind, a self has to be created as other wise you do not have any way to judge the situation as smooth or not smooth.
The very moment you have judgment, you have a protection of that judgment, that image, that label.
So in order for the sailing, the navigation to be smooth there has to be a thought based comparison from a memory in which it was not smooth, where there was a problem.
This now means instead of fully doing the thing you are doing, your awareness is now on judging and protecting the narrative of the journey instead of what you are actually doing.
The smoother things are going the more the need to protect it. To protect your “winning” streak.
If you are protecting your winning streak, your productivity streak, you are now no longer doing what you are doing, all you are doing is tending to the streak.
Once this corruption begins it will navigate you further and further from what you were originally doing.
The mind will also start unnecessary problem solving if everything is going so smoothly, if there is no organic stress at all.
If there is no organic stress the mind will create thought based stress, which is a thought spiral that cannot be ended with thought, which can exhaust and weaken you exponentially.
If there is a small amount of organic stress there is physical need to grow.
If there is no organic stress, you will physically start shrinking sooner than necessary.
If you judge a situation as going well or badly, an image is formed that will need to be protected and or problem solved.
If you protect and hold on to the image of the still water, the smooth sailing, you will be holding on to a fantasy and you will physically shrink.
There is no smooth sailing, there is always a storm somewhere.
There is no constant storm, there is always clear sky somewhere.
You are not just the storm, you are the whole sea
Do it till its done, then do something else, or do nothing.