[Acting Like Godot]

For the sake of discussion, I will assume that the Law of Attraction does NOT exist. Even so, it is abundantly clear that what you do, is always a product of how & what you think. In fact, what you do is ENTIRELY dictated by how & what you think. Therefore it is eminently foolish to believe that how & what you think, is of little consequence.

How & what you think is of GIGANTIC importance, ESPECIALLY if you believe that the successes and failures in your life depend primarily on what you do (rather than, say, random good luck, or family background, or the help and support from other people, or genes, or natural talent etc).

Even if you aspire to be a super-duper action-oriented goal-setting machine, the first thing you'll have to do every morning is:

"Write a to-do list and prioritise the items" ... (Standard advice in time management books).

In other words, even if you want to take action, action, action ...... the most important thing is still to THINK about what you want to do, and CLARIFY your own thoughts as to which actions would be most important, and IDENTIFY the end results you wish to achieve. This planning, or thinking, is essential. The THINKING is always the key.

Efficient, effective and powerful ACTION follows from efficient, effective and powerful THINKING.

Confused, incoherent and misguided ACTIONS follow naturally from confused, incoherent and misguided THINKING.

How could it be otherwise?

Let me say it again .... What You Do Is Entirely Dictated By How & What You Think.

The real issue that Cdn2Wheeler has been grappling with is ....

.... WHETHER your thoughts have any consequence to your reality, apart from entirely controlling and dictating your every physical action and deed throughout the entire day.

Of course. Among other things, the thoughts you choose have a direct effect on the emotions you feel. For example, for your entire life, whether you experience:

happiness, sadness, anxiety, worry, joy, peace, calm, anger, love, frustration, hopelessness, passion, hate, confidence, fear etc etc

is primarily a process of consciousness. In other words, your thoughts play a huge role in determining the amount of happiness and suffering in your life.

If you consider that to be a trivial point, then you are extraordinarily foolish.

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Now, I shall reintroduce LOA/IM back into the equation.

As a regular practitioner of LOA/IM, I do my IM and I also take action on my goals. Frankly I do not see how it could be otherwise.

You see, thought attracts similar thought. The more intensely you think about your goal X, the more you will attract MORE thoughts about Goal X. And all action is simply a form of thought. If you disagree, then try getting a brain-dead person to hit a tennis ball, drive a car, give a speech or balance on one foot.

Action follows naturally from thought. If you use an IM exercise, say, to visualise yourself running, you cannot help but feel more motivated to run, and therefore you will. And you probably WILL run better too, which is why countries now send their sporting teams together with hypnotherapists to the Olympics.

So the only point we are debating here is whether your thoughts have any consequence on reality, apart from on:

(a) your own actions
(b) your own emotions

(although, by now, it should be clear that (a) and (b) are of vital consequence in their own right). And that would lead us to the discussion of the "magical" effects of LOA. But we've been there before, many times, nothing new, I won't revisit. Those who are interested can check out the old threads.

So I only leave you with this thought for today:

No matter how you look at it, it's still ALL about your thinking. Get that right, and your actions will follow. And so will your emotions.