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Taking Action – My Perspective
Thomas Jefferson said, in The Declaration of Independence:
“…all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed…”
In other words, we will suffer any number of discomforts, circumstances, conditions, situations, relationships, home environments, annoyances, irritations and so on — even for long periods of time — rather than upset the status quo. We may be in a rut, but at least the rut is familiar.
It’s only when we can no longer tolerate such things, when they become insufferable — when we become so fed up that we cannot go on another minute as we have been — that we FINALLY take action.
The human capacity to adapt never ceases to amaze me.
The problem with tolerating the status quo is that nothing changes until we — until I — take action. We can bemoan our situations all we want, rant about injustice or a lack of income or any other thing we’re enduring unhappily, but the fact still remains, if we do nothing about our circumstances, who is to blame?
Yes, it’s possible that situations can be outside of our control, but our reaction to those situations is within our control. I don’t want to be one of the majority who bemoan their fate but do nothing. I am not an experienced action-taker, but I’m willing to learn how, and unwilling to tolerate circumstances that are only marginally outside my control.
Because ultimately, only I am responsible for my circumstances, when all is said and done.
One definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over while expecting different results. The same is true for doing nothing and still expecting different results. Wishing doesn’t change anything. Action does.
Will you join me today in making a change in what you do or don’t do? Change one thing and then monitor the results over time. May we all effect dramatic, positive changes in our circumstances, starting today. Starting right now.