"A person who dreams of stardom but never puts in the work isn't dreaming, he's hiding."
I read this in What to do when it's Your Turn by Seth Godin and it touched a cord in me. To be quite frank, many aspect of the book touched a personal cord!
I have a vision of writing a book, but do I sit and write every day - No! Ah... but dreaming about its so much easier.
At this point, I don't need to write a book .... I just need to write!
How often does one hide in one's dreams? It is a lot easier to dream than it is to get up and do it.
Do it ... Yea!
Professor Deplands (Concordia University, Religion Dept) coined the term "the will to will". A concept out of Augustine's writings. Basically, one gets stuck in "the will to will" and not the doing ... "one day I will ..." Will that day ever come? One can change the "will to will".
Change begins with a thought. Once a thought is in place one works on the behavior and creates the steps for a habit to form. Once the habit is formed, change has occurred.
Isn't it strange that negative habits are so easy to take on, but try a positive one and it can take weeks to establish. I do not recall ever trying hard to maintain a negative habit. It seems to come easily!
Sadly, you can undo weeks of work towards a positive habit by not doing it a couple of times. The reverse is NOT true for the negative habit. It takes weeks to undo it! No fair!
But, who ever said life was fair?
Namaste
