This Spiritual Practice is perfect if you are overwhelmed and stressed out with how much you have to do. You may have heard the phrase “give it to God”? Well, in this spiritual practice you will literally assign tasks to God!

This is one easy way to help regain a sense of time and control in your life. Oddly enough it’s by giving up control that you can start to feel it again.

Here is how the Spiritual To Do list works, and if you have a current to-do list, take it out and let’s go through it!

First, take a blank piece of paper and draw a line down the middle, dividing it into two parts. At the top of one side write “Me,” and on the other side write “God,” or Holy Spirit, Universe, or whatever you are most comfortable with.

Now, go through your tasks for today and assign to yourself ONLY the physical things that you must do. Everything else goes to God. (See photo for reference.)

For example, you will have to physically make the sandwiches for lunch, so that goes under “Me.” Same with the grocery shopping and posting a video to Facebook.  However, you don’t have to try to decide what to write about next, so give that to God. You don’t need to figure out the next family trip – put that on God’s side. Now this is important: if information about the trip comes to you throughout the day, be sure to jot that down. Maybe someone at the store tells you how much they loved their last trip to some remote island, so make a note of it because that quite likely is God sending you a message about where to start looking for your vacation.

Maybe you need a home remodel contractor – that goes on God’s list to send to you; you don’t need to spend precious time trying to find a good one.

The tasks here are essentially split between physical, actionable steps – that’s you – and idea or lead generation – that’s God. Your job is also to be open to the signs and recommendations that appear, for if you miss that step, then you’ll have to take those to-dos back onto your side of the list. There is really no need to do that, so be aware and open!

Let life be easy; do only what is truly yours and turn the rest over to God!