No, I did not get that wrong – I did mean "Easier Done than Said."

We are so conditioned to the other that this looks so wrong. But is it?

Isn't the other just an excuse for procrastination, not doing, or failure? I think it is. The more of the old sayings that you look at the more you understand that they are really just there to excuse our lack of success. And a poor excuse they are!

Jesus told us "Ask and it shall be given to you, seek, and you shall find ... For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks, finds ..." So it is easy to gain what we ask for and find what we seek.

The only thing that is left is the action or inaction. Make the choice and get on with it.

So why don't we take action?

It actually starts very early in life. How often were we forgiven our misdeeds and not really expected to learn from these failings? Often society really just wants us to get along with others, not rock the boat and accept our lot in life. It is so easy to do. Go to the public school, get our good grades, learn what you can and move on to college. Then you go out and get a "good" job, secure your benefits to take "good care" of your family and all will be well.

But is it "well"? The results would belie that things are so "well." Only about 5% make it to the point where they are really self sufficient at age 65. The rest of us are very dependent on the government, our former employer or our 401k to take care of us through the rest of our life. That is "security" for most of us.

Let us rethink this process. What can we do to make a change.

The first requirement is to recognize that a change must be made. Even that is not so easy. After all we are very comfortable in the place we are. Change will require discomfort. I have heard the story of a man who walked through town every day. He observed a dog on a porch who howled every so often. One day, he saw the master of the dog and asked him "Why does your dog howl?"

The master said "He is sitting on a nail."

To which the walker responded "Why doesn't he move?"

The response was "It doesn't hurt enough as yet!"

And that is how so much of our life is. It doesn't hurt enough for us to change, so we sit and howl (disguised as complaining) to any who will listen. But we are not uncomfortable enough to change.

Change can start by doing little things day in and day out. The more uncomfortable some of these changes might be, the more effective they will be in taking us to where we want to go.

The next thing will be to continue to take action. You may have to adjust your direction slightly so you can get to where you perceive you want to go, but it is much easier to make those adjustments when you are already in action.

Now a days, with power steering in most cars, we have forgotten how difficult it used to be to turn the wheel of a stationary car. But give it a little motion, and it became much easier. Also look at an airplane as it begins to taxi. As it begins to move, it is able to turn, but only once it is moving. The other thing we can learn from an airplane is that most of the energy is used to get it up in the air, well over 60% of the energy is used during takeoff. Very little is used to maintain flight and even less for landing at the destination.

"Saying" gets you nowhere.

Doing allows you to receive and find when you ask and seek.