Labor

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
Jim Rohn

We all have flashes of wisdom. Most of the time we don't notice them because we are too busy dealing with all the stuff that life throws at us, that other people are talking about; most of all, the stuff that we feel that we "should" do in order to please other people. It takes quiet and solitude to really be "able to hear yourself think", to first of all discover who you really are, and secondly to notice your flashes of wisdom and learn how to understand what they mean.

We all have differing levels of feeling. Some things we don't really care about one way or another, and other things get us really excited, really happy, or really angry, really sad. Those strong feelings are clues to help clarify what it is that we really value in life and what is really important to us. Even knowing what we definately don't want is a useful clue to discovering what we do want. Our feelings, even the bad ones, are there to help us learn about who we are and what we want.

We must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. It is not enough to know what you want, or even to know what you need to do in order to bring it into reality. We have to actually do what we need to do. Even when it is unpleasant and difficult and we can't see ourselves making any progress at all. Even when we can see all kinds of obstacles and problems that seem unsurmountable. It is essential to take action, and keep taking action until we reach our goal.

Most of us, even when we get started excitedly, fail to take action consistently long enough for it to actually produce results. We forget that even with exponential growth, there is a long period of time where nothing much seems to be happening. We get discouraged and we quit. Or maybe we think that there is no way to get around obstacles or solve the problems we see. We forget that obstacles are only something we see when we take our eyes off of what we want to acheive. When we don't have a burning desire to acheive our goal. We have to translate the wisdom of knowing what to do and the strong feelings that this is what we want to do into consistent labor, and most importantly the faith that victory must be acheived and it's only a matter of time.