Some times you do something and you highly wait for the results with so much excitement and anticipation. Think prepping for competition, advertising a product, or making your move on a potential date…. And then crickets.
And some times you don’t do something because you dread what might happen if you do. Think setting a boundary, breaking off a relationship, or quitting a job, And you stay stuck.
It seems like we oscillate between the two, living in the future and in anticipation of what might happen.
But we really don’t know what might happen, it’s so much better to do the thing in the most thorough and graceful way you can… and then wait to see what happens.
The problem isn’t the doing of the thing. We can do that and we must always be moving forward and taking action.
The problem is our attachment to the results. We can’t do good work when we keep letting our imagination drift to what might happen.
And we don’t have any control over what might happen anyway.
“So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.”. Eckhart Tolle