Why you don’t take action
Has the answer always been so simple?
Sitting around too much is bad for you. Eating too much is bad for you. Not paying your taxes is bad for you. Not loving yourself is bad for you. Not hitting your sales quota is bad for you. There’s a lot of bad that can come from not taking action, yet we still do it.
With every “we should”, “we know”, and “we will”, comes another item to add to the checklist of unaccomplished tasks. Another reason to feel stressed, another reason to feel anxious, tense, and a little worse about ourselves than we did the minute before. We all have the mental To-Do’s, and enough checklists to save a forest (I’m a fringer, you know.. before smartphones).
It can feel overwhelming, to say the least.
Showers can be a powerful time for thinking, I know some of my best thinking has come under the beads of water. It can also be a dungeon for beating myself up over every last item I didn’t complete. Quickly, turning my beads of water into acid daggers pounding against my brain telling me how incompetent I am.
So the question is, if we know that pain comes from avoiding the task at hand, then why do we punish ourselves? It sounds so easy in theory to just freakin’ get up, get goin, and take massive f’in action. Right? Wrong. At least wrong for 99% of us. I’m not…
