I see motivation
as if it was written on our foreheads...
Sometimes we act trying to create MEANING,
Sometimes we act trying to accomplish DOING.
To come up with the perfect meaningful blog, a rich and thoughtful plan for whatever business or collegiate initiative you are doing, to write the perfect book or song, to have the right conversation in the right way...
MEANING takes THOUGHT... and most often MEANINGFULNESS takes TIME because inherently it must be THOUGHTFUL THOUGHT.
DOING takes ACTION... and initiative and it happens in an instant, or in minutes...
So often I see us wait on "doing", because we want "do" meaningfully. But in the time that transpires we just DO alot of other stuff. And, then our deliverable is simply to check the box. (It happens to me all the time with gift giving... I want to give something meaningful, and then I just give something or not, because I didn't spend the time thinking through it.)
TRUTH is... LIFE requires BOTH, desperately!
We just did our performance reviews at work.
To do 100% of them in the time allotted, you had to likely FLY through them to just "get them done".
To give true meaningful feedback can take time, but waiting for the complete and perfect review virtually never happens.
The "magic" in life...
happens in the BALANCE...
IT'S POSSIBLE... YOU CAN DO BOTH... You simply have to make that your objective! Be thoughtful in your actions. Be thoughtful in the moment. Our minds are FAST...
The KEY is to CHECK IN with your heart at the time of action... to speak from it, to act from it, to engage it and include it in your actions...
Don't GIVE yourself the OUT... "I didn't have time to think about it so I am just going to do it." It doesn't have to be an OR.
Yes - more thought, more time does make it more thoughtful... but more thought and more time is so very often just not possible!
We must work to BUILD meaningfulness and THOUGHT into our actions,
and we must ACT with pace as thoughtfully as we can.
Without thoughtfulness, life is a long list of check boxes that we move along like robots.
Without action, the beauty, value and uniqueness of our being stays fruitlessly, locked in our minds for no one to enjoy - making nothing better.
HARMONY
IS
as it always is
in the balance...
THINK about it...
AND, ACT on it...
in THOUGHTFUL ACTION...
in ACTIVE HARMONY ;-)
Nestor