Thrilling HeroicsThere’s a time to plan and there’s time to implement the plan.  Planning just a wee bit more or evaluating the plan just one more time doesn’t actually add anything to the endeavor.  In fact, it wastes time, effort, and sometimes the patience of the other people involved.  It tends to muck things up and get things twisted.  Same goes for second guessing.  Sometimes it’s good because we got ahead of ourselves, didn’t think things through, made an emotional choice in the moment and then on second thought we saw the gotcha! involved and so with a second guess we can get ourselves back on track before the bad happens or too much bad anyway.  But for the most part second guessing is just us hesitating.  It’s buying time, trying to get away with not doing what we know we need to be doing, and in most cases it makes things worse by extending our worry and anxiety and fear beyond what is useful or helpful.

So once you’ve seen that something needs to get done, you’ve made a plan that seems to Serenity Moviemeet all the criteria, go ahead and try it out.  It doesn’t have to work at all or work well or work all the way.  That’s what trying again and flexibility and improve are all about.  That’s what life is all about, living while making plans and alla that.  Yes, things can’t possibly go wrong if you don’t do anything except for the fact that the world doesn’t stand still while you’re not doing. The world just keeps on spinning even while you’re holding your breath and not doing and trying to pretend that it’s not.  Remember, not choosing is a choice.  Not doing is an action.  Since it’s action no matter whether you’re choosing or not, perhaps doing something that has a chance of moving you closer to the life you want, the end result you want is better than holding still and finding out later what could have been. Or not.  You won’t know until you try.

Shepherd Book once said to me...