Time for Action, Jackson!
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Time for Action, Jackson!
10 Overlooked Truths About Action | The Art of Manliness
I read this article about 5 AM today and have had all day for my mind to mull it over.
I have a big problem with perpetual planning. I went on a binge with planning fishing a few years back. Buying gear, researching destinations, planning, planning, and planning, Little fishing got done. I realized it was happening so I went to keeping a pole and some tackle in the truck 24/7/365. A couple of hours here, a half hour there, even if unproductive I was fishing. And I got better at fishing. I took to keeping a backpacking stove, fry pan, and some side dish in the truck 'cause fresh fish is easy and tasty.
I'm trying to apply this to the rest of my life. It's work. As I said, I have a problem with perpetual planning. I can sit and go through the steps necessary to achieve a goal and plan that out and as soon as I've finished planning I feel I've achieved the goal. It's like my brain considers it done. I fight that constantly.
I read Newcomers having the same problem. We're here because we know drinking is wrong for us. We've taken action. We have to keep taking action. Whatever action is necessary. Don't stop. Don't falter. Don't sit there with a drink in hand thinking you've quit.
Time for Action, Jackson.
I read this article about 5 AM today and have had all day for my mind to mull it over.
I have a big problem with perpetual planning. I went on a binge with planning fishing a few years back. Buying gear, researching destinations, planning, planning, and planning, Little fishing got done. I realized it was happening so I went to keeping a pole and some tackle in the truck 24/7/365. A couple of hours here, a half hour there, even if unproductive I was fishing. And I got better at fishing. I took to keeping a backpacking stove, fry pan, and some side dish in the truck 'cause fresh fish is easy and tasty.
I'm trying to apply this to the rest of my life. It's work. As I said, I have a problem with perpetual planning. I can sit and go through the steps necessary to achieve a goal and plan that out and as soon as I've finished planning I feel I've achieved the goal. It's like my brain considers it done. I fight that constantly.
I read Newcomers having the same problem. We're here because we know drinking is wrong for us. We've taken action. We have to keep taking action. Whatever action is necessary. Don't stop. Don't falter. Don't sit there with a drink in hand thinking you've quit.
Time for Action, Jackson.
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I'm a perpetual planner too, Trach 
Sometimes I have to force myself, if only for a few minutes, to just do the first step of whatever it is I'm planning. I can easily live inside my head for days 
Action is where it's at.
In retrospect, my sobriety was defined by the phone call I made to the treatment center to set up intake for IOP.
Sometimes I have to force myself, if only for a few minutes, to just do the first step of whatever it is I'm planning. I can easily live inside my head for days Action is where it's at.
In retrospect, my sobriety was defined by the phone call I made to the treatment center to set up intake for IOP.
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I love #10 -
10. Action Isn’t Petty
“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.” –Nassim Taleb
Action isn’t concerned with opinions, it’s dedicated to reality.
Action doesn’t leave room for gossip.
Action couldn’t be small if it tried.
10. Action Isn’t Petty
“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.” –Nassim Taleb
Action isn’t concerned with opinions, it’s dedicated to reality.
Action doesn’t leave room for gossip.
Action couldn’t be small if it tried.
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This is so true. I procrastinated putting in for vacation days because I'm still perpetually planning the vacation. I know where I want to go, approximately when, and what we will do but I'm still mulling it over. Meanwhile, because I haven't taken action because of the endless loop of research and planning, I'm no closer to going.
Same with my sobriety and quitting. I was waiting for the stars to align at just the right time. Well, I stopped waiting and thinking and planning and just got started. And with constant action and practice, I've gotten better. I still over think things but it's paralysis through over analysis. I'm getting better. And I did put in my vacation request today.
Same with my sobriety and quitting. I was waiting for the stars to align at just the right time. Well, I stopped waiting and thinking and planning and just got started. And with constant action and practice, I've gotten better. I still over think things but it's paralysis through over analysis. I'm getting better. And I did put in my vacation request today.
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I don't understand. Are you chuckling about realizing how defeatist and negative those quotes are? Or about adding them to thread started on just about the polar opposite attitude/pov?
I don't understand. Are you chuckling about realizing how defeatist and negative those quotes are? Or about adding them to thread started on just about the polar opposite attitude/pov?
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Originally Posted by trachemys 
I read Newcomers having the same problem. We're here because we know drinking is wrong for us. We've taken action. We have to keep taking action. Whatever action is necessary. Don't stop. Don't falter. Don't sit there with a drink in hand thinking you've quit.
Drink in hand. And thinking. How impossible is that? The best move I ever did was put that drink down. And then get my thinking going on how to keep that drink down. This kind of action and openness to lifestyle change made all the difference in staying quit.
Thanks Trach for the timely reminder being actions taken after putting down that drink is where sobriety begins.
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