Are You Drifting?

Basically, everything you see was at one time just an idea, a thought, nothing more. Cars, planes, shoes, paintings, businesses, sculptures, pencils, chairs, iPhones, iPads, the wheel, books – just an idea in someone’s mind, until they took action. The hardest and toughest question you have is knowing when to take action. How do you know your idea has merit and it’s not just another goofy dream? How do you know when to change jobs, get a job, move to a new city or live in the country, go back to college, or get your high school diploma? How do you know? Unfortunately, I don’t have a magical answer for you, but I can tell you about my experience with taking action. My “drifting” and “not drifting.” “There is an infinite distance between the wishers and the doers.” - Orison Swett Marden As you will read in chapter 3, “My story/My Drifting,” when I had my big idea, my eureka moment, my life calling, my epiphany, or whatever you might call it – if I had done nothing, had not taken action, well, who knows what I might be doing now? I hate to entertain the thought. Maybe I would be a poor and starving writer! You have to ask yourself, is it time to stop drifting and take action? Is it time to make your idea a reality? Do you want to go for it and see what happens, or do you want to be like one of those who Henry David Thoreau says “go to the grave with the song still in them?” As I mentioned previously, you may be perfectly content and happy with your life, your accomplishments, and your career, which is great! But if there is something inside you that is telling you that you don’t want to go to your grave with your song still in you, that you have much more that you want to bring out, then the concepts and ideas in this book will help you. Only you know if your life is just a half or a quarter of what it should or could be. In his book He Can Who Thinks He Can, Orison Swett Marden quotes author and clergyman Phillips Brook as saying, “No man can live a half-life when he has genuinely learned it is a half-life.” Is your life a half-life? Do you still have your song still in you? Are you tired of your same old routine? Living life like it was one big yesterday? If you answer even a partial yes to any of these questions, it may be time for you to take action. Time to change what you are currently doing, take the plunge, and go for it. You might be amazed at all the doors that will open for you.