What is it that drives you forward?
What is it that lurks in the shadows of your actions and drives?
What is it that comes into mind before doing the things that you do every single day and seemingly without even a thought?
Ask yourself these questions before “moving”, so that you will know and identify your motivations and then understand if this is the right thing.
We spend hours of thinking and our limited energy on the question why someone does this or that, why someone said this to us, why someone did this last week or why someone is going to do this action in the future. But at the same time we do not spend as much time thinking about our actions and why we do them.
“Well, that is just how I do it; well, that is how we did it all the time” or “I do it for myself, I do it because I like it” and the phrase even more common “I do not know”.
Is this how you want others to act and behave around you?
Are you satisfied with these drives and motivations?
The next time you are about to do a daily task or even a big one, ask yourself, do I need to do this, can I do something else instead, does this help my real drives in any way?
THINK BEFORE YOU ACT. DO NOT ACT BEFORE YOU THINK.
“Oh, I wish I had not done that.”
If you would think and really analyze your actions without jumping from one conclusion to another, these seemingly little or even big mistakes would and could be avoided.
Do not be too fast all the time. Take your time and use it for the things that truly matter. Be slow. Being slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
Is it better to do something fast knowing that later on you will not be satisfied looking back at it?
Or is it better to take your time and know that what you are doing is what you really want to do?
What do you think would have happened if people like J.F.K. would have acted fast and relied on their gut feeling during the Cuban Missile Crisis? You do not want to imagine the disaster. However, J.F.K. instead did not listen to the people around him telling the president to destroy and obliterate the enemy fast and immediately. He took his time and eventually, without even reacting, the enemy retreated and a nuclear war was avoided.
Now, we most likely will not be in the same situation as J.F.K., but if we use the same method we can also avoid many little disasters and mistakes that could arouse if we do not think before acting.
KEY:
Find the hidden forces that decide your actions.
Are you the one in control?
Take your time and become the commander.