Thought for the Week

Timothy D. Stein, MFT, CSAT

March 3, 2014

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.” –Amelia Earhart

You can spend a lot of time thinking about options, planning the perfect and most effective strategy, and attempting to predict and cover every possible outcome but, eventually, you need to act.  Addicts sometimes find this lesson out the hard way when they relapse and spend too much time fretting about the right way to tell their partner, only to have their partner discover the relapse on their own.  At that point, “I was going to tell you” holds no water.  Amelia Earhart accomplished much in her life not because she avoided planning but because she moved through the planning phase and did it!

When have I avoided action in the past?  What was I afraid of that kept me from acting?  What awaits me if I move through the planning phase and embrace the doing?