It's New Year's Eve and, as usual, everyone's posting resolutions. Goals. Intentions.
I believe in a different approach. It's about the ability to act right now. Not tomorrow. Today.
Action is completely different from intention. Intention says that I'm going to do something tomorrow. Action says that I'm in it, right now. Semantics, you say. I think not. There's a big difference between intention and action. If I put a desire out in front of me and say that I want to get there, I may want it, but I'm not there. The desire is still away from me. In the future. Not now.
Intention is future; action is being and doing right now. If I keep saying that I will make a change, the word will places the change into tomorrow. But if I say, I am changed ... I am in the new ... I live, breathe, and move in the action, then I have already become it. Now. Not later.
What are you, right now? Not what do you want to be. What do you decide to live, in this second? Be who you are today. Be the action. Live in it now. Say it, believe it, and act on it. We've all heard the phrase, "own it." Present tense. Not future tense.
You are a writer. Write. Love what you do.
You are in a relationship with someone you care about. Care. Act. Love what you do.
You want to set a goal. Don't set the goal. Simply live it today. Now.
Then live it tomorrow. And tomorrow. And tomorrow. And, guess what? You don't have a resolution, goal, or intention. You are living who you want to be, how you want to be, in the way that you want to live.
Every second is a new now.
Okay, so do I have goals, resolutions, and intentions? Yes, lived in statements of today. I don't want to be. I am. I write out the I am statements, keep them on a board, and gather pictures. Who I am is before me, drawing me into the completion of its moment right now. It's all about being in the current of the river, not walking alongside the river and saying, I'm going to get in that river soon. I'm all about swimming. It's much more fun, and it gets you where you want to be.
Cheers to your wonderful New Year,
Erin
I believe in a different approach. It's about the ability to act right now. Not tomorrow. Today.
Action is completely different from intention. Intention says that I'm going to do something tomorrow. Action says that I'm in it, right now. Semantics, you say. I think not. There's a big difference between intention and action. If I put a desire out in front of me and say that I want to get there, I may want it, but I'm not there. The desire is still away from me. In the future. Not now.
Intention is future; action is being and doing right now. If I keep saying that I will make a change, the word will places the change into tomorrow. But if I say, I am changed ... I am in the new ... I live, breathe, and move in the action, then I have already become it. Now. Not later.
What are you, right now? Not what do you want to be. What do you decide to live, in this second? Be who you are today. Be the action. Live in it now. Say it, believe it, and act on it. We've all heard the phrase, "own it." Present tense. Not future tense.
You are a writer. Write. Love what you do.
You are in a relationship with someone you care about. Care. Act. Love what you do.
You want to set a goal. Don't set the goal. Simply live it today. Now.
Then live it tomorrow. And tomorrow. And tomorrow. And, guess what? You don't have a resolution, goal, or intention. You are living who you want to be, how you want to be, in the way that you want to live.
Every second is a new now.
Okay, so do I have goals, resolutions, and intentions? Yes, lived in statements of today. I don't want to be. I am. I write out the I am statements, keep them on a board, and gather pictures. Who I am is before me, drawing me into the completion of its moment right now. It's all about being in the current of the river, not walking alongside the river and saying, I'm going to get in that river soon. I'm all about swimming. It's much more fun, and it gets you where you want to be.
Cheers to your wonderful New Year,
Erin
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