I have always thought that there are two kinds of people: those who do what they say; and those who just say. I am, and have always been someone who thinks and analyzes too much, so needless to say, I think about the above statement daily. Therefore, I frequently find myself rhetorically asking, which one am I?
I would assume we would all like to answer that question with "I always do what I say I will" because that is a nice way to view ourselves. I would venture to guess that this is a fallacy. Now at this point you may be thinking, maybe I'm a bit judgmental, or come on Sam everyone slips up; I agree with both reactions. However, I do not want to focus on doing what we say we will do, instead I want to focus on just doing. So I want to restate something; there are two kinds of people: those who do; those who don't.
This is where I end up, I am generally a person who tries hard to keep my word and do what I say I will do, but does this make me a doer? I have/am envious of those people who have the ability to risk failure to "do" what they say they will do. For me it has always been safe (easy) to do what I am supposed to do. What has been hard is to do what is hard, to put myself out there, to take an idea/dream and make it a reality.
We often (I think) have two reactions to those who do, from now on let's call them the "doers". We either love them, i.e. Musicians, Actors, Models, Politicians; these are the people we idolize. This applies on the micro level as well, these are the "life performers" we follow on a daily basis. I heard from a valuable, educated source, that having this kind of hierarchy in society directly relates to a successful society, so please know I consider this a positive attribute. The other type are those who don't do (remember this relates directly to the above defined as "doers"), let's refer to them as "non-doers". These are the people who don't do what they want to do. I am a believer that no idea is accidental, and should therefore be given a serious place in our daily walk. First, I want to address all of the over analytical skeptics who might read this. I am trying to leave as little ambiguity as possible, and I am trying to be as specific as possible when defining theses terms. So when I say those "who don't do what they want to do" I am not addressing our wants based on material/media related influence, but strictly imaginative.
I recently studied/practiced Yoga. While there is a lot of non-christian principles, there were some interesting perspectives on how we view life. I read about the imagination and how it is the key to creating reality. I thought about everything we see on a daily basis, man made (at least for now) and it occurred to me. Before there was any kind of car, it's design had to come from somewhere. Arguably, daily interaction with other things play into the creation of this design, but all in all it had to be thought up. What if Henry Ford had doubted his image, what if his fear of failure would have prevented his action. I'll leave that answer up to you. I could easily come up with example after example to restate the same underlying fact. We need to honor the natural ideas, whether influenced by Man or God.
Our natural intuition is a gift from God one the we have to honor. But with this notion has to come action, the doing, without the doing part it just stays as an idea. I write this brief thought because it's a struggle. But putting it down keep me accountable. I want to be a doer. I want to follow through with my ideas. And remember with the risk of extreme failure, there is always a chance of great success.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky [Michael Scoot]
