There are so many articles and posts that suggest we write down everything, because the process of writing things down defeats procrastination, stagnation, and underachievement.
You can write anything down with the intention of taking action – that’s easy. But unfortunately, it usually doesn’t work. I would conservatively estimate that 99.76% of the people who write things down (give or take a hundredth of a percent) like New Year’s resolutions, goals, and even plans to achieve goals – such as losing weight, making more money, getting a better job, improving relationships, etc. never accomplished what they write down.
What is missing from writing things down?
About 99.76% of the time, what’s missing is high emotion and enthusiams that fuel the achievement process. When I write down anything, it’s exciting and I see myself already in pursuit and in possession of the goal, intention, or desire. Also, at the end of every year, I go over everything I wrote down and look at what I did not achieve… and acknowledge that I had limited passion or an ongoing degree of diminishing intent to achieve it. In other words, my emotional engagement to achieving what I wrote down was impaired or was not strong enough in the first place.
So yes, write things down. But I would suggest that you don’t waste your time writing things down that don’t “turn you on” or that have low emotional intensity.
In the end, it is emotional ambition and a burning desire that drives success achievement. I MUST achieve this; I CAN NEVER allow this to happen again; I MUST be a hero to my family; There is NO WAY the past can continue in my future, etc.
Without the burning desire and high emotion to support the thoughts and intentions you write down, the past will equal the future. However, with high enthusiasm, a high degree of confidence, and all-out excitement behind all that you write down… you can turn the impossible into very probable!
