04.22.08
Get Moving Toward Your Goals with Radical Action
“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my
instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
Statistics predict that about 45% of you are setting up your
goals and resolutions for the New Year. Unfortunately, in six
months 46% of the 45% will have lost contact with those
resolutions.
It is part of our human nature to be ever evolving, setting
goals, and heading towards something. It is a wonder to me
that there are so many people helping so many people
accomplish what they want to do. You’d think it would be
easier than that.
What really gets in the way? After 30 years of working with
people to help them get where they want to go, I find that the
number one reason that people don’t get what they say they
want is that they just don’t take action. Not enough action.
Not inspired action. Not prolonged action. Not considered
action. Not informed action.
We live a lot of our life in our heads. Visualization and
imagery are important parts of goal attainment. But when
you spend more time visualizing, imagining and thinking
about your goals, resolutions and intentions than you do
carrying them out, that is pretty much where they are likely to
stay - in your head.
It is true that you can not make something happen by forcing
it into manifestation. So action designed to manipulate
results hardly ever works. And you have very little direct
control on the results of your actions. All you can be
committed to is taking the inspired action and regulating
your relationship with the actions you take.
The reason that people don’t take action is because they
really prefer what they are doing now or they definitely don’t
like the action that is needed to get the results they want.
Sure we would like the results to already be in place. But we
are just not that keen on doing the things to bring about
those results.
What you are doing now and the life you are living now are
perfectly aligned to give you the results that you have now. If
you want something different you have to do something
different. This is so obvious that we tend to let it slip by us
without really grasping its meaning. The more truthful we
are with ourselves the more we will notice that things
around us are not changing because we are not changing. If
we want the results around us to fundamentally change, we
have to fundamentally change and take fundamentally
different actions than we are taking now.
If you want radically new results (not just a rehash of the
same old same old), you have to take radically new actions.
And for most of us, radically new actions are scary.
So, what to do…?
The short answer is to just do something - anything -
radically different. It would be nice if it is an inspired radical
action that has something to do with your intended goal. But
even if the radical new action does not seem to be directly
connected to your intended goal - try it anyhow.
Doing anything radically different is like a passport to a New
World where there is a new you waiting. Take a calculated
risk. A strategic chance. A considered tactic. Don’t hurt
yourself - don’t gamble away everything in one play. But do
take a leap.
You can not travel to a New World if you are taking the same
old train every day. Be bold. Be outrageous. Get used to
being scared and feeling out of place and just do something
radically new.
Some radical new actions for 2006:
- Run for public office
- Submit a book proposal
- Ask your sweetheart to marry you
- Apply to go on the Amazing Race
- Audition at a Broadway theater
- Become a news reporter
- Find out if you have food allergies
- Take a Vision Quest
- Start a magazine
- Go back to school
- Get the best lipid profile you have ever had
- Find out if you have adrenal stress
- Start eating fresh food
- Get a handle on your brain chemistry
- Volunteer at your local Habitat for Humanity
Or some other radically, outrageous action calling to you. Be
bold. Be brave. Be radically different this year and see what
shows up.
“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is
not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the
stairs.”
-Vaclav Havel
Mary Ann Copson is the creator of the Evenstar Mood
and Energy Management System for Women. With
Master’s Degrees in Human Development and in
Psychology and Counseling, Mary Ann is a Certified
Licensed Nutritionist, a Certified Holistic Health
Practitioner, a Brain Chemistry Profile Clinician, a
Professional Life Coach and Human Development
Consultant. For resources about reconnecting to your
natural rhythms through better management of your
physical, emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual
energy visit http://evenstaronline.com
