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Two morals of this story:
Everywhere you are in life is a result of some action you took in the past.
Pretend for a second that time is not real
Imagine that you stop time and freeze your life right now into a single moment (a single frame/photograph on a camera). In this picture of your life, you are stuck there, seeing the same thing over and over again.
Imagine that you live in a dream world where you feel stuck, inside the scene of a single photograph. You sit around waiting for something to change, but nothing seems to change for you. In this world, time isn’t real in the way you were brought up thinking it was. The only way to shift to the next picture and noticing change in your life, is by exerting some of your physical energy into the world and doing something different than you did a second ago.
When you exert your energy through some form of physical action, it creates a new photograph that you are now living in.
If you’re sick and tired of staring at that same photograph, try something new and see what that new photograph looks like.
In this world, we can only notice any change in our environment into the next “frame” after we take some kind of new action in our lives, because when we take new actions, we see new results.
You are always taking action
I hear so many people say they have a hard time taking action, but with this “cause & effect” picture book we create in our life, every picture is a result of some action. You area always taking action, you’re just not taking the action that will allow you to look at a new picture in your life.
So you are stuck in one picture at a time… And now you finally realize you have the control in your life to choose to shift to a new picture. The actions you take are the only things that push you to the next picture.
Same Actions = Same Results
New Actions = New Results
Let’s speed things up
When you go to the movies, the movie projector is doing nothing more than playing a series of still frame pictures very quickly (60 or more frames per second). This creates the illusion of progressing through time. It’s just like those flip books you probably played with as a kid (see picture).
In this world, life is nothing more than a series of still frame pictures that change so rapidly, that it gives you an illusion of time.
You previously thought that your financial situation, relationship status, fitness, and health might appear to be wrapped into a passing event that might change over time. But these things won’t ever change unless you take some type of new actions that will change the picture that you’re currently looking at.
Coming back to earth…
Do the same principles not apply here? Are you waiting for your ideal life to come to you? Stop waiting – TIME CAN’T SAVE YOU. Start doing something about it so you can finally begin to look at a new picture. Your life is nothing more than a series of millions of pictures per second that create the illusion of a movie. Take some new pictures.
Consider those things you must do that will allow you to look at a new picture that pushes you closer to your goals. Consider you couldn't not do things that you must do and also you must not necessarily do things you could do.
Further reading on the topic…
If you haven’t read the best selling book, The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle, the literal translation of the concepts above applied to our physical world here on earth might sound like a bold statement, so let me give you a quick rundown of the message from the book:The time is always now. The past and the future are nothing more than thoughts in our head. It took me about three years after reading that book to fully wrap my head around that concept.
- Too many people think success will come to them if they wait long enough (time isn't real).
- To those procrastinators out there...Taking action isn't hard. You are ALWAYS taking action. But what action are you taking?
Everywhere you are in life is a result of some action you took in the past.
Pretend for a second that time is not real
Imagine that you stop time and freeze your life right now into a single moment (a single frame/photograph on a camera). In this picture of your life, you are stuck there, seeing the same thing over and over again.
Imagine that you live in a dream world where you feel stuck, inside the scene of a single photograph. You sit around waiting for something to change, but nothing seems to change for you. In this world, time isn’t real in the way you were brought up thinking it was. The only way to shift to the next picture and noticing change in your life, is by exerting some of your physical energy into the world and doing something different than you did a second ago.
When you exert your energy through some form of physical action, it creates a new photograph that you are now living in.
- This energy could be in the form of doing something you’ve done before, and as a result, you would be stuck in a moment (photograph) that you’ve seen before. You will shift from the last photograph you were in, but it will just be a repeat of some old photograph you’ve already seen.
- Or you could exert some of your energy into something new, and once you do this, you will be sitting inside a moment (photograph), that you haven’t seen before.
If you’re sick and tired of staring at that same photograph, try something new and see what that new photograph looks like.
In this world, we can only notice any change in our environment into the next “frame” after we take some kind of new action in our lives, because when we take new actions, we see new results.
You are always taking action
I hear so many people say they have a hard time taking action, but with this “cause & effect” picture book we create in our life, every picture is a result of some action. You area always taking action, you’re just not taking the action that will allow you to look at a new picture in your life.
So you are stuck in one picture at a time… And now you finally realize you have the control in your life to choose to shift to a new picture. The actions you take are the only things that push you to the next picture.
Same Actions = Same Results
New Actions = New Results
Let’s speed things up
When you go to the movies, the movie projector is doing nothing more than playing a series of still frame pictures very quickly (60 or more frames per second). This creates the illusion of progressing through time. It’s just like those flip books you probably played with as a kid (see picture).
In this world, life is nothing more than a series of still frame pictures that change so rapidly, that it gives you an illusion of time.
You previously thought that your financial situation, relationship status, fitness, and health might appear to be wrapped into a passing event that might change over time. But these things won’t ever change unless you take some type of new actions that will change the picture that you’re currently looking at.
Coming back to earth…
Do the same principles not apply here? Are you waiting for your ideal life to come to you? Stop waiting – TIME CAN’T SAVE YOU. Start doing something about it so you can finally begin to look at a new picture. Your life is nothing more than a series of millions of pictures per second that create the illusion of a movie. Take some new pictures.
Consider those things you must do that will allow you to look at a new picture that pushes you closer to your goals. Consider you couldn't not do things that you must do and also you must not necessarily do things you could do.
Further reading on the topic…
If you haven’t read the best selling book, The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle, the literal translation of the concepts above applied to our physical world here on earth might sound like a bold statement, so let me give you a quick rundown of the message from the book:The time is always now. The past and the future are nothing more than thoughts in our head. It took me about three years after reading that book to fully wrap my head around that concept.
- When you drove to work last week, the time was ‘now’.
- When you drive to work in the future, while you drive to work, it will be ‘now’.
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