“It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.” ~ Gretta Mulrooney, The Lady Vanished
One of the tragedies of life is people with magnificent intentions, which simply meddles in their mind as a puff of a dream but nothing more because there is no action to express and create their intentions.
Most people want to grow, learn and go beyond where find themselves. But most people are not growing, learning and expanding, because there is no action behind their intentions. Intentions without action is exactly why they are struggling in their faith, relationships, business and personal life!
Intentions are great! When a great and magnificent intention invades …show more content…
Knowing is not enough. Knowledge alone will not change anything for you unless the gap between knowing and doing is eradicated.
“...pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act...It is those who are able to carry out their good intentions who deserve praise.” ― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
For many years, I have read self-development books in leadership, relationship, spirituality, communication and self-improvement. My bookcases are full of these books of which I read most of them. However, every time I got to the exercises, coaching questions and assignments, I moved right along without doing them. My intention was to do them when I had finished reading but I never really went back. Does that sound familiar?
Many years later nothing changed in my life even though I had great knowledge in my head. It was not until I was able to apply them one by one, I saw change take place and move me beyond where I was. My hope is that these short writings do not simply wash over you as a “feel good” snippets of knowledge but it’ll help you to think, bringing you a better