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New Years’ Action 2020
Actions are more powerful than resolutions.
My very favorite line from the entirety of Star Wars comes from Yoda.
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
For a long time, I didn’t fully comprehend what he meant by that. However, after a lot of years of sitting with and studying this statement, I get it. A try leaves room for failure and incompletion. Doing leaves no such space.
This is not about the physical act so much as it is about the attitude. If you try, you are saying “I’ll attempt,” which leaves room for doubt and failure. If you do, you are saying “I’ll do,” which brokers no argument.
What if you do and still fail? It will happen. Odds are, I’d wager, that you still learned something along the way.
With the New Year, people tend to make resolutions. They “resolve” to do something. It might be to eat better, go to the gym, call their parents, or some other idea they’ll “try” for a time. It’s a soft, flabby idea that is easily dismissed.
It is for this reason that, back at the start of 2012, I chose to take a New Years’ Action, rather than make a resolution. That action? Write one blog post per week.
Eight years later, I am still writing this once-per-week article about Pathwalking, which has evolved to…
