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How I Learnt to Finally Take Action
We all have things we want to do in life. Places to go, people to see and dreams to be realized. But for some of us, there is a certain dread or anxiety that comes up when you’re ready to start. For others, we suddenly lose our motivation and believe that we don’t need it or don’t care anymore.
Some of us are lucky and are able to recognize our inability to act and then just blow the doors down by just trying, failing and improving until we reach success. But sometimes it’s not so simple.
Bulldozing yourself into action may actually precipitate even more disaster because there is something within that is totally out of sync with the rest of you. Plus you may be disrespecting yourself by forcing yourself to act. But by first honoring the issue within, you will then be able to take action in the future.
The two elements that can prevent you from taking action are thoughts and emotions.
Thoughts are approximations of reality. They aren’t reality. The things that play in our minds are often the words of our parents, peers and society about right versus wrong, things that have happened in the past to us or others and how to avoid problems and maximize benefits.
If you were to study the things your mind comes up with, most of the thoughts it comes up with aren’t true in the present…
