Action Is Required
This post is written more as a reminder for myself than anything else. Still, I think that other people can benefit from this simple concept.
Here it is:
Results are not based on what we believe, feel, or think. Results are based on the behaviors/rituals that we continually engage in in the real world.
I understand that our cognitive processes do affect our actions. Definitely. No doubt about it! What I want to emphasize is that ACTION IS VITAL. Without it, NOTHING GETS ACCOMPLISHED!
One of the patterns that I continually see is people who try and try to get their internal experience right before acting. That is, changing their internal experience (read: procrastination) becomes a safe problem or a distraction from actually having to take risky action (action that might lead to pain but whose reward can be colossal). This can go on for a very long time.
The reality is that there are stories and there are results, and results are determined by engaging in continous positive action. Anything that stops us from engaging in continous positive action can be framed as a story.
So what’s your story?
Is it your past? Is it you lack of experience? Is it your emotions? Is it your low self-esteem? Or how about your daddy? Or maybe it is your mommy? Or maybe it is your ethnicity? Or how about our age? Or how about all of those?
I’ve heard them all and I’ve engaged in a bunch of them myself.
Once in a while, in the face of continuous failure despite the actions you take, it may be useful take a pause, try to get a bit emotionally detached from your problem and try to figure out what’s wrong. Otherwise, it would be like keep on banging your head against a wall like a maddened ram, with the only result to hurt yourself without any result, as it’s happening to me now.
Yup agreed. I think that the action should be constant and continuous right action. The key is finding the right action to take. I think that this is simple though; all that is needed is to model the action of someone that is getting the results I want. One other thing, is to not make the attainment of the thing the source of happiness. As soon as attaining the thing is the source of my happiness, I’m not happy, which causes problems attaining the “thing”. My .02. Not reality…just how i think reality is.