Taking Inspired Action

“It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling, than to feel yourself into a better way of action.” - O.H. Mowrer

I believe that it was Tony Robbins who said that the key to success was in taking massive action toward your goals.

Not just a little bit of action.

Massive Action.

So how does that mesh with Abraham-Hicks saying that it’s your vibration, not your action, that makes the difference.

Who’s right?

Personally, I think they both are… it just depends on how you are looking at it.

As human beings, we are naturally action oriented.  We do things.  Yes, I know that we are all human “Be”ings, but a big part of being human is in the doing.

We are creators, and our vibration both causes and comes from that creation.

There’s a saying out there - “Fake it until you make it.”

I’ve never much cared for it, but there is a lot of truth to it.

All creation begins in the mind.  Before a building is built, it’s mapped out on paper.  Before a car is built, it’s designed.  Before a book is written, it’s outlined.  Even before a meeting starts, an agenda is created.

We can do the same thing with our lives.

The plan, the design, is where we get into the vibration of our creation.  We see it, we feel it, we bring it into existence in our minds.

But then, in order to bring our creation from our minds and into the physical world, we take action - and the more massive that action is, the more quickly the manifestation will happen.

Sometimes, in our day to day experience, we feel like we just don’t know what to take action on, what to create, what to DO.

And sometimes the best way out of that is to take action on something… anything!

For instance… say one of your goals is to get the dishes done (My regular readers may have noticed how often I use doing the dishes as a goal.  If you saw my kitchen sink, you’d know why.)

We can sit around and try to get ourselves into the vibration of a person who has gotten the dishes done.

Or we can do the dishes.

But sometimes it’s hard to motivate ourselves to do the dishes.  How do we do that?

It can depend…

Something that works for me is seeing the dishes done in the first place.  As Stephen Covey said in “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”: Begin with the end in mind.

Sometimes, that’s enough to motivate me to do the dishes.  But not always.

Or, I can commit to working on the dishes for 15 minutes… after 15 minutes, I’m done whether they are or not.

Hmmm.. but I’m still just sitting here, not doing the dishes.

OK, how about I just walk over to the sink.

Now pick up a dish.

Clean off the major gunk, and put it in the dishwasher.

Now pick up another one.

Clean off the gunk and put it in the dishwasher.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Suddenly, I’m in the “vibration” of doing the dishes.

And eventually, as long as I keep taking the action, the dishes will be done.

Sometimes, the action creates our vibration which will motivate us to continue, and sometimes the vibration is already there, spurring us on to take the action.

And it doesn’t really matter who’s right, or which came first.

Contemplation alone never got the dishes done.

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