The ‘Doing’

I find myself, more often that I would like to admit, getting caught in the trap of planning, thinking, and prepping to the point where I do not always get to the ‘Doing’ portion of whatever it was my head was creating. It is a trap that many of us fall into. There are days, I will wake up with a brilliant idea. I spend the rest of the day/week/month researching, creating plans, and dreaming about the project. For some reason though, I fail at following through with the actual ‘doing’ of whatever it was.

I am not alone in this. There is a friend of mine who always compliments my magickal practice because I am always ‘doing’ the work, where as she is more the scholarly type who is stuck in the trap that I mentioned earlier. Again, WHY?! Why do we get trapped in this cycle? We go into these projects with the best of intentions.

I have come to realize over the years, that it’s fear that stops us. Oh, we can color it with any of a thousand different reasons:

• I ran out of energy
• It has already been done
• I’m not that good
• No one is interested
• I don’t want anyone to find out this is what I am doing
• I’m too busy
• The kids demand more attention

You name it, I’m sure I’ve used it as an excuse to NOT get to the ‘Doing’. I’m even guilty of it while building Lunar Rising. This dream of mine stayed dormant until I found someone who supported me so intensely that she joined me as my business partner. She keeps me motivated and reminds me daily that the fears I have regarding this dream are unfounded, imaginary, and my own self consciousness.

I rarely introduce myself as a card reader. Why? I have faith in my spreads, my cards, and my readings. I fear people’s opinion. I grew up in a house where my witchy ways were laughed at and not supported. That fear still lingers. I am very open about being a practicing witch and have had many people come to me for different purposes, help, and advice.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

– W. Clement Stone

The ‘Doing’ comes down to having faith in your own abilities, ideas, and dreams. Trust that the Universe is working for you, especially when you start ‘Doing’ the work that is required. I realize that it may not seem like it at the moment. When my husband lost part of his hand in a work related accident it was almost impossible to see how that was working for our benefit. BUT he left the job that worked him 16+ hours a day, paid him crap wages, didn’t offer insurance (or any help after the injury, including denying him workman’s comp). As soon as he was healed, he was hired in at a steady job, great pay, insurance, vacation time, 401k, ect. He was promoted within a year to shift lead and all in time to find out that we were expecting another child. It’s just one of many examples I have of the Universe working for us rather than, what seems like, against us.

What are the areas in your life where you are stuck in the planning/thinking stage? What are you avoiding ‘Doing’? What are your reasons, and are those reasons more excuses for fear? Dig deep. Sometimes fear hides in the corner and throws excuses at you so you don’t shine your light on it. Fear is far more content to sit in the shadows undetected and in disguise of our excuses. I encourage you to dig deep. Sometimes, fearing being successful is far worse than our fear of failure. In failure, nothing changes. We remain in the ‘known’. Success however, can bring us into a life we can’t even imagine and THAT can be far scarier. Shine your light on your fears. Bring them to the foreground and confront them! We learn from our failures and mistakes and we grow from adversity.

I leave you all with this advice (and I’m including myself in this): Even if you think it is going to end up horribly, get ‘Doing’. The universe is constantly surprising us with it’s wisdom.