If I started to worry about future events, I gently brought my thoughts back to the present moment. There was nothing I could do to get the job done any faster. I just had to take it minute by minute and let go of my worrying. Mindfulness has an element of denial in it. Remember that denial is a coping technique and as such it is not necessarily bad.
Denial becomes dangerous when it becomes the only coping technique.
When we use mindfulness, we are pushing extraneous thoughts out of our minds. Basically, we are denying their existence, or at least trying really hard to stop them. This technique did help me get through the time crunch. The tile was picked, the sink was purchased, the colors were chosen, and the cook top was found. The tile man and the painters came in on Monday with everything ready for them, and I went on to the next crisis.