Working more or less?

In a society where we are always told to work harder or that we just did not work hard enough, we become deceived in our assumption that if we work harder we can become whoever we want to be, regardless of whatever strengths or weaknesses we have been given. We are a society that sells the idea that we can make ourselves into whoever we want to be by sheer hard work.

Yet as I was thinking about how God tells us that He created us in our mothers wombs, He has a plan for each and every of our lives, I wonder whether the story of "My Life" is written by God or by my hard work. If it were truly written by God and I were to yield to His plans, to follow the doors that He opens and walk away from the ones He closes, perhaps my worry that "God must be mad that I'm not working hard enough" should become "God must be mad that I am working TOO hard" - so hard that I would look back on my life and give myself the credit for doing a good job, rather than giving God the praise for bringing me to where I am today.