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Today's
quotation:
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in
the water. Actually
getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside us wants us to be cautious, to stay
away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids
anything resembling danger. But
it’s often wrong. Anything
worth doing is worth doing too soon.
Barbara Sher
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Today's
Meditation:
Sometimes
it's easy to fall into a rut of inactivity. Action
seems to us to be a sure route to disaster, or a sure way
to lose all that we've spent so much time building up in
our lives. After all, the status quo for most people
in first-world countries these days is much more than
bearable, and the idea of taking risks that may sabotage
our successes is not a pleasant thought.
But
many of us need to make changes in our lives-- we need to
take actions that provide us with something different in
our worlds. We need to treat people differently if
we're to be more satisfied with ourselves, or we need to
do our jobs better or we need to find a completely
different job, one that doesn't force us to compromise our
ethics or morals, if we happen to be in such a position.
Starting
an exercise program, taking charge of our financial
situations, telling a loved one that his or her actions
are not acceptable, starting a college degree program, stopping
one of our own destructive behaviors--all of these need
action on our part, yet all of them are threatening
actions. All of them include the possibility of
failure, and all of them require that we recognize a need
that may be painful to recognize. But all of them
will provide results that will have been worth the risk,
and will have been worth the time and effort involved to
reach the conclusion that we desired.
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