As most of us learned at a young age, there are certain physical laws that seem to govern the running of the cosmos. One of those laws is that, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Inertia

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force. Again just a variation of action/reaction, but Inertia can be a wonderful thing if it’s applied to your life in a positive manner.

Another way to state the law of inertia would be to say that once the big ball gets rolling, it’s fairly easy (requires little energy) to keep it rolling. Now replace the big ball with success in your life. Once you get success going for you, it’s a chain reaction, and success just seems to happen all by itself. It requires hardly any energy to keep going, as opposed to the energy it took to get going in the first place. Remember how we talked about people are attracted to success?

Action Vs. Re-action

I believe one of the major reasons, that people never get what they want in life is because they never take the time to think actively or do actively or anything actively. Everything starts with a thought though, so let’s start there too.

How much time you spend thinking actively, as opposed to reactively? How much time do you waste contemplating the thoughts of someone else? This is how the masses can be led around like sheep, by advertising, and ‘leaders’, it’s because no one thinks for themselves, and the system is set up to keep you from doing just that.

All day long you’re bombarded with things that you react to, but do you spend anytime or energy doing some acting of your own? What are you uniquely contributing to humanity?

So here’s the homework for today

You want success? If it doesn’t directly contribute to your ability to act on what you want, then stop reacting to it. All the distractions that you think make up who you are… just leave them right where you find them or take action to keep them from happening again.

It’s like a dog that just won’t leave you alone… I’m sure you’ve had this happen to you before, you’re sitting down, relaxing, watching a movie or talking with friends and the dog wants attention. So he takes action, he goes over to you and starts licking your hand, or gently biting it in the way that most dogs do when they want something. The thing is, you don’t want to give attention to the dog, you want to continue doing what you were doing. Now you can do one of two things… You can act or you can react.

Ignoring the dog will usually work (this would be not-reacting which is a form of action when consciously done), but patience is required and for sake of argument, let’s say this dog is very persistent.

You can give in and pet the dog, but all this does is make the dog want more, and so all of a sudden you have a bigger drain on your energy.

Or you can take action that will prevent the dog from interrupting you (training him to lie down and not beg for attention or putting him outside) Whatever the fix might be, taking action  and not reacting, is the only way to make sure that you don’t end up doing the dog’s bidding as opposed to your own.

So spend a few minutes every day when you wake up, thinking actively about what you want, and if it doesn’t bring a smile to your face and joy and peace to your heart, then what you want isn’t worth having, or you’re in it just for the money which will never make you happy or content.

THink About IT…