Spend More Time Doing Than Thinking

What a day!  Have you ever had one of those days where you have so much going on in your head but none of it seems to be manifesting itself outside your head?  Know what I'm saying?  You know where you're thinking, "I gotta do this and I gotta do that."  What am I going to do about that over there?  How am I going to pay for that?  Maybe I'll take that money from over there and do this and then by the time I do that the money would have come back for that....  On and on the craziness is going on in our heads while we go about our day looking completely normal, calm, and at ease to everyone around us.  If they only knew the circus that was going on upstairs!  Isn't that crazy?!  But that's exactly how many of us spend our day-a bunch of chaos in our heads.  And yes, if you're like me you've learned how to not worry but sometimes life can just catch you off guard.  During those times we just need to remember to STOP...slow down and ask ourselves an important question.  Why am I so anxious?  And once you've had time to really think the question over you might come to the conclusion I did today.  Charlotte, you have all these things dancing around in your head because the thing that you need to take care of today you have not done that.  See, quite often I catch myself piling all the things I have to do into my mind that I know will not all get done on a given day.  The day comes to an end WITHOUT accomplishing one single thing that I could have accomplished on that day.  STOP wasting time THINKING about what to do and spend more time actually DOING. 

I'm finding more and more that the source of the problem for many things I have not done in life is because of this very problem--I've spent more time thinking about it and premeditating the outcome rather than just taking steps TO DO.  I hate when I do that to myself, don't you?  We plan out the failure in our heads.  And after we finally decide TO DO what we've been thinking, we wonder, 'why didn't I do this sooner?  What was I so concerned about?'  It is always good to be cautious, AND to think and look before we jump, but sooner or later we have to decide to take that leap.  Simply thinking happy thoughts about that person is not the same as calling them.  Simply thinking about that new idea is without value once someone else comes along and brings that same idea to light.  As a once famous ad said, "Just Do It!"