See the whole world as balanced

The Rambam teaches that a person should view himself, and the entire world, as if his merits and sins were exactly balanced. With his very next deed he can tip himself and all of creation to the side of merit and bring salvation, or the opposite. No act is small; every mitzvah may be the one that decides everything. The sound of the shofar, he writes, is a call: wake up, sleepers, search your deeds and return.