Act - Make the Decision

One of my goals this year was to act. While I’m sure some of you would find it humorous if I were to take the stage and take a stab at acting but that’s now quite where I was going. My goal to act is in the sense of “taking action” – you know, act.

While I would like to say that pace to act was either considered slow or non-existent at times. And yet my dreams and ideas were moving at a very quick pace. Can you see the disconnect? How many times have you had a great idea, but never acted on it. Had a desire to learn something, but never enrolled. Wanted a new job, but never applied for it. Wanted to try something new, but never even looked into it. For a long time that was me.

Then I took that one step further, creating an idea book, jotting down ideas and some bullet notes about it. I still didn’t act.

Then I took some ideas and wrote up some high-level plans, not quite business plans but the underlings to a business plan. I still didn’t act.

Then I secured a domain and did a little skeleton website. I acted …infrequently.

After a year of being at home due to this pandemic, I no longer had excuses as to why I did not act. Now it came to a decision. Either act or let it go. Things were not going to achieve themselves. Dreams were not going to magically formulate into reality. The only way things were going to happen is I had to make the decision to act. One task at a time. One day at a time.

I’ve been hearing on a couple occasions that in “taking action”, to act, means letting go of the outcome. I thought about that long and hard. What? Let go of the outcome? But, but, but … and then it hit me.

I must act, make the decision to act. I don’t have control of the outcome. I don’t have control of what people will think or say. I don’t have control of outside influences. All I have control over is to act. So, I am. I am making the decision to act. And have faith that the Universe and the Divine is conspiring with me to success.

A decision to act. That’s it. This one is done. On to the next. Maybe the stage is next? ~ChaCha