Hi again,
I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard the phrase “Keep it in the day” at meetings. It’s good advice not to project into the future or to wallow in the past, but how about taking it a step further, and try to “Keep it in the moment”. I first came across this idea in some Buddhist teaching or something similar, I can’t really remember (/blush), but just lately I have been reminded of it in yet another excellent book I have read, Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, in which he describes the concept as “Presence”. For me it has come to mean that if I can be completely conscious of what I am doing at any given moment, I will be free of the “washing machine head” that we all suffer from.
It is impossible for the ego (the washing machine) to exist “in the now”, it must exist either in the past or the future, spinning on as it does about what has happened or what might happen, but never what is happening.
Whenever I find myself wandering off into a daydream I try to bring myself back to the present moment by concentrating fully and only on what I am doing.
For example if I am doing the washing up, but I am thinking about the revenge I will take on that bastard who cut me up on the drive home, I am not consciously doing the washing up.
I am in fact doing myself harm by feeling resentment and attracting more to feel resentful for into my life.
So by concentrating my thoughts on the task at hand, I stop this uneccessary resentment in its tracks, do a quick step ten and maybe say a prayer for the “bastard” to have a pleasant day, and carry on with my own. 
Be Well
fluke
