Intention Does Not Equal Action

Posted on Jun 1, 2010 | 0 comments

Most people have great intentions. If you carefully observe the trends of society you’ll find businesses that thrive upon well-intended folks. Your scan of today’s world will also reveal that intention does not equal action.

You can find hard evidence of this fact in the habitual circus of broken promises that arises on January 1st of each year. People gear up in “change suits” with the intention of changing something in their life once and for all. Some start and fade away. Others never even get started.

The intention was there. The action was not. How many times have you heard statements from people in your networking circle (or from yourself) such as:

• “I want to lose weight but I just don’t like to work out”
• “I hate my job but I’m too scared to try my own thing”
• “I’m going to start working out every Monday through Friday”
• “I am going to pray (meditate) for 5 minutes each morning”

This world is filled with intentions and many of them are good. Yet intentions alone do not mean a thing. If they did, than New Year’s Day would be one of the most impactful days of the year for the betterment of society. Instead it is relegated to just another starting point of more comical insanity.

What really matters is the action that we take in our lives and businesses to support our intentions. Intentions are the thinking part. Action is the doing part. Thinking void of action fails to bring you even a step closer toward seeing your intention to completion. Action that is taken void of intention is often a waste of your energy. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget that intention does not equal action.