What are you really thinking about today?
Perhaps the most basic statement of how we work. Think about what you are thinking today. What do those thoughts say about you? About your life? And how well do they really match your plans for your life and your image of yourself?
It’s easy to forget about this simple statement in everyday life. It’s easy to be quite incongruent with what you think on an ordinary day compared to how you view yourself and your goals. A simple external reminder such as a post-it with this quote can be helpful to keep you and your thoughts on the right track. A brilliant and beautiful expansion on this thought can be found in James Allen's As a Man Thinketh’.
But thinking alone is insufficient we have to be proactive with our thoughts and our beliefs in order to keep the positive thoughts flowing.
Thinking has its place. It can help you plan a somewhat realistic route to your goal and help you avoid future pitfalls. Over thinking is however just a habit that will help you waste a lot of time. It's more useful to replace that habit with the habit of just doing it.
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” By Bruce Lee.
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” By Bruce Lee.
Thinking too much and thereby seldom taking action. Paralysis by analysis can waste years of your life. There is nothing wrong with thinking before you do something. Do some research; make a plan explore potential upsides and problems.
But compulsively thinking and thinking and thinking is just another way to waste your time. You don't have to examine everything from every angle before you try it. And you can't wait for the perfect time to do something. That time never comes. And if you keep thinking you'll just dig yourself down deeper and deeper and taking action will become more and more difficult. Instead you just need to stop thinking. Shut of your mind it just helps you up to a point and go do whatever you need to do.
Adding more thoughts and thinking things over for the 111: Th time may create a sense of security. It’s also a good way to procrastinate and to avoid taking that leap you know you should take. And the more you think, the harder it gets to act. Perhaps because you want to keep that comforting sense of security and avoid the risk of wrecking that feeling.
How can you overcome this way of thinking and feeling?
Be proactive.
To hell with the circumstances you have to create the opportunities you want. It's easy to get locked into a reactive mindset. You just follow along with whatever is happening. You do what the people around you do. You react to whatever is going on and so you get lost in your circumstances. This way of thinking doesn't feel good. You tend to feel powerless and like you are just drifting along.
You can't allow your self to be stuck with Paralysis by analysis the only way your going to know if your ideas or your goals for your life will ever work is if you become proactive like Nike says JUST DO IT!
The more action you put behind your thoughts the clearer they will become over time, like the famous quote by Napoleon Bonaparte say,
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” In other words JUST DO IT!
Will it be hard taking action? Yes! But what do you expect you have been passive with your life all this time of course it going to take a lot persistent and determination to start live an abundant life but look at it this way.
When ever NASA launches a rocket into space it takes two gigantic boosters to give it enough momentum to get it up and then it just break free from them and use its momentum to get it to its destination being proactive does the same in our lives. So what are you waiting for?
JUST DO IT!
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