Photo by: jam343 |
You’ve probably read a self-help or personal development book before. Just a guess. I’ll also go out on a limb and guess that some of them try to tell you something like this. “If you believe it – it will be so!”
I agree – kind of.
What they don’t tell you is that thinking is the first step to growing yourself. Making up your mind to change gets you in the right frame of mind to change. It doesn’t actually change anything externally. And until you figure out how to live in a completely internal world – that might not be useful.
Do you like cake? Well, do you like sugar? How about eggs? Vanilla? Flour? Salt? Milk? Heat? Time to cook? Frosting? Decorating? Preparing? Selling? Or do you just like to eat cake? You’d probably balk at the grocery store if their Bakery section just had boxes of ingredients, right?
You want a finished product. You want something you can digest. Something you can sink your teeth into and put to use right away. You already made your mind up about getting the cake, getting the one you want, how you were going to get it, and what you were going to do with it when you get it. But now you want to eat it!
Get your ingredient in order, but know that you have to actually do something before you can eat it.
Imaginary cake tastes like nothing. Real cake tastes yummy.
Here’s a little graph that might help: