Thinking about thinking

There was an interesting thought in one of the videos I watched lately. Basically, thinking about doing something is not doing something. Now, that seems a given, but, if you think about it, thinking about whatever it is you want to be doing or should be doing, while helpful to a point, may actually lead you to think you accomplished a doing while only thinking about a doing. This idea hit home as I am a great thinker, and it never occurred to me that all my to-do list making and outlines and plans and brainstorming might be a major obstruction.

It may be true that because we think we are thinking and therefore we are being. And while being is certainly something we should all aspire to, sometimes in order to become more of the being we were meant to be, we have to be doing as well.

Since we think more than we do, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking-not-doing, or, as I like to put it: dreaming-about-how-good-it-will-feel-to-have-accomplished-this-task.

So the thought for today is: Dream. Think. Plan. Visualize. But don't think about doing. Take action.