What Does Doing Nothing Bring Us?

I was sitting down last night and asking myself this question. It was one of those self reflection self talks that I do from time to time. I know that I’m not alone on this one. But, it was time to really ask some serious questions.

As I have already stated, I’m sure all of us has asked ourselves this question before. But, the real question is why do we keep asking ourselves this question when we already know the answer? Well…most of the time it is the fear of doing something different. I know that I’m bad at it as well. So, I’m not perfect. But, I do know that the more I ask that question to myself the more I start to just get sick of it. That in turn will trigger some action.

I don’t know how many of you can relate to this. But, I know my biggest reason for not wanting to take action is pure laziness. Yep…laziness! I just don’t feel like doing anything. Nothing. Zilch. Nada! But, I also pay the price for doing absolutely nothing...overwhelm! So, I have decided that in times when I don’t feel like doing anything, that I do something even when I don’t want to.

For instance, if I want to read 10 pages of a book and don’t feel like it, I make the decision to read a paragraph. Now we all know that reading a paragraph is not the same as reading 10 pages. But, it can be the catalyst to keep me reading further. That initial action of reading a paragraph could possibly end up with me reading all 10 pages. Or, definitely more than if I did nothing.

Another example would be doing the laundry. I know that we all don’t look forward to doing it. But, it has to be done. One of the ways for me to get started is to sort the clothes. But, when I do that, I sort them where I know that if I left them there, it would get on my nerves (I’m somewhat of a neat freak). Just the clothes sitting on my floor in neat piles would make me at least start a load because I know that it will just pile up. It’s got to get done, why not do a load or two right?

I wrote all this to simply say that when you have those times when you really don’t want to do anything, do something instead. A small step towards a goal or task is definitely better than doing absolutely nothing! We either pay now or pay later! That’s just how it goes!