How many times a day do you hear about the need to take action? If you want to get anything done, you have to take action. It is the key to improving any aspect of your life or making your dreams come true.
Motion is not necessarily action.
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lot of people feel trapped in a never ending barrage of things to do. Their to-do lists continue to expand regardless of how much gets accomplished. They are scrambling most of the time. A typical example is the working mom who has to get from her work to the kids’ soccer practice, then off to the ballet recital. Back home to cook dinner, ensure the kids do their homework, put the kids to bed and tidy up, then go to bed.
When you stop and think about it, do you really have to do any of that stuff?
One might say I have to provide for my family. I need food and a roof over my head. So I have to work to earn enough money, at least for the basics. After all I have to live.
There is an innate tendency in us to repeat what we enjoy. Ever observe a child obsessing over the same Disney movie watching it over and over, or doing the same thing more than a hundred times a day just because it is fun?
As adults we tend to lose the enjoyable side of obsession. We associate it with compulsive or unwanted thoughts and emotions. Yet we obsess more than we realize. Our beliefs, desires, fears and attitudes are shaped by habitual thinking and feeling.
We can use this obsessive trait to our advantage. One definition of obsession is: the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
The proverb “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” has been used for centuries. We all have good intentions when it comes to what we want to do and achieve. But what happens if you have the best of intentions but don’t do anything about them?
The answer is: you create your own internal hell. Intentions you don’t act on will take mental space and will eat at you until you do something. As you intend to do more things, you add fuel to the inferno.
What may help in easing the suffering and managing this inner hell is to answer a couple of questions.
Do you REALLY desire something and intend to make it a reality in your life?
