I’ve posted before about goal setting and checking your course every now and again. It’s important to know where you are, where you want to be, and if you’re on the right path to get there. Being on the right path, though, isn’t enough.
Will Rogers famously said “Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” And that’s a very important message.
Think about this. Perhaps you’ve wanted to lose weight and you’ve heard about the ketogenic diet. So you get a curiosity about you on the topic and start looking online for information. You find a blog or two about the ketogenic diet and you scroll through the posts and check out all the progress pics. It certainly seems like the real deal.
You start following people on YouTube and Instagram that are living a ketogenic lifestyle. From them you learn about their journey and what they’re doing daily to meet the goals of being keto. You look back to past posts and videos and you’re amazed at how far they’ve come. Clearly you can lose a lot of weight on the ketogenic diet.
But you’re a nuts and bolts kinda person so you download a few books on the ketogenic diet to your Kindle and get to reading. Some of the books are broad and give sweeping advice, others are more narrow and scientific. Altogether they have given you a complete understanding of how the diet works. You understand ketosis like a pro. You can develop ketogenic meal plans in your sleep.
Over the last month of information consumption you’ve become a storehouse of ketogenic knowledge. I could ask you questions about gluconeogenesis and you could tell me for a guy my weight what level of protein to stay below to avoid it. I could ask you the difference between ketosis and ketoacidosis and you could expound on that for an hour. I’m at the store and want to buy something new, but I’m not sure if it’s keto friendly. One text to you and now I do. You’re clearly on the ketogenic track.
But you look down at your belly and you realize you haven’t even lost an ounce. Why? You’ve been so busy learning you haven’t been doing. Having knowledge about a subject is great, but putting it into practice is better. You need to take the first step and begin walking the path.
This applies to anything you might learn or think about. Got goals? Well if you aren’t taking steps to achieve them you’ve actually only Got dreams. Want a calmer mind? Sitting around thinking about a calmer mind pretty much is the opposite of what you’re after. Thought about learning a new language? Downloading Babel+ won’t get you any closer to that if you never open the app.
Don’t just find the path, walk it. Don’t wonder how your life could be, live it. To quote the great philosopher, “Do or do not, there is no try.”. Take that first step down the right track today and you just got one step closer to the life you want to live. Have a great day. Peace.
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