What is an action-oriented life? How is action different from motion? How can you learn the art of taking dynamic actions in your life?
An action-oriented life means you are living your energetic reality. The very nature of energy in your existential, individual self is action. The life force in you is action-oriented. When you are living life in the way your life force wants to express itself, you are living an action-oriented life.
Human beings are blessed to have the most dynamic energy in them. The very nature of this dynamic energy is to take actions. When you are fully integrated, when you are fully one with yourself, you naturally keep taking actions every day in different ways.
There are some basic actions which you take for self-care. Beyond these, other actions include performing your professional work, engaging in your studies, or managing responsibilities for family members and children. An action-oriented life makes you feel human, makes you feel divine at times, and also keeps you happy, peaceful, and joyful.
When you live in an action-oriented way, you are enthusiastic. You can see the possibilities life brings to you in every moment, and you live on and on in the present moment. There is never a dull moment in your life when you are action-oriented.
Action-Oriented Life Is Balance
An action-oriented life does not mean doing activities all the time. Instead, it makes you a balanced individual who knows when to stop, when to act, and what is truly needed for the action. You invest yourself in preparing for the right action to happen.
For example, if you are a professional who needs to work for eight hours a day, then the remaining sixteen hours of your day should be spent in such a way that your eight hours of work are most productive. In those eight hours, you act from the highest decision-making ability and execute in such a way that you get the best results.
To do this, you balance your life. Your professional work provides you career and wealth. The rest of your time you must spend in taking care of your health and relationships. Only with great health and fulfilling relationships will you be able to perform well in your career. Gradually, this balance will also make you wealthy.
To live action-oriented means keeping the momentum of energy flowing. You do not remain stagnant because you understand the value of your time, money, and energy. You know that a day lost is lost forever.
When you are action-oriented, you make the best utilization of your resources—time, money, and energy. You extract the optimum benefit from them. And when you truly value yourself, you naturally begin to value the time, money, and energy of others as well. This is how you grow as a leader, no matter what stage of life you are in.
If you are an entrepreneur, you know the importance of being action-oriented. You know how valuable you are, and you recognize that your time, money, and energy are your most precious assets.
The Difference Between Action and Motion
Action is different from motion in a very fundamental way. Action is taken from the life force itself. Action is born from the energy of who you are—the purest form of energy, consciousness.
Motion, on the other hand, belongs to the mind. The mind keeps on producing thoughts. It keeps on thinking endlessly and remains in motion.
This mental motion steals away the precious energies of consciousness and makes you feel depleted. Because you lose your energy in mental motion, you are left without the sufficient amount of energy required to take real action.
Stress, anxiety, and depression are all caused by the mind when it is not monitored. When the mind remains unattended for a long time, it wanders aimlessly. Without a guardian, your mind remains caught in obsessive thoughts and keeps you stagnant in your life.
The mind is full of beliefs that limit you and stop you from taking action. Before you take any risk, your mind will create fear in you and show you reasons based on its limited beliefs. It whispers: What if you fail?
This fear makes you feel insecure. It keeps you stuck in one place and constantly attracts you back into the comfort zone.
All of this is simply motion. And while you remain in this motion, your valuable time, money, and energy are lost forever. They can never be replenished in this lifetime.
If you understand the importance of taking actions, and if you have personally experienced the shortfalls of being trapped in mental motion, then this is the right time to begin taking dynamic actions. By doing so, you will change everything in your life—you will become happier, wealthier, healthier, and greater as an individual.
Learning the Art of Dynamic Action
How can you learn the art of taking dynamic actions in your life?
The first thing is to simply start taking action. Whatever you feel inspired to do—do it. Do not get lost in weighing pros and cons endlessly. That overthinking is motion.
If you feel like driving your car and going on a long ride, even though you haven’t done it for a long time, just go and do it. This simple act will release your blocked energies and refresh you for your next action.
The problem with people who fall into depression is not the external problem itself. It is their habit of remaining more in motion and not taking enough action.
You must understand: life without action is dead. A dead body does not move. But a life force, an alive being, is in motion through action.
Look at all the species in nature—apart from human beings, every species is in action. They instinctively do their daily tasks. Birds fly, animals hunt, plants grow. They do what is assigned to them by nature every single day without overthinking.
Sometimes, when you remain trapped in mental motion, you do not even feel like taking care of yourself. You may not feel like eating food properly, sleeping well, going out in nature, or loving yourself.
Why? Because self-love is against what the mind wants. Your mind wants you to hate yourself so deeply that you remain trapped in motion forever. This is a dangerous truth. If you feed your mind too much power, one day your mind will kill you.
Action as the Nature of Life
Life is action. To live in harmony with your life force is to live in action.
Think about it: the sun rises and sets every day. Rivers keep flowing. The wind keeps moving. Nature is alive because it acts.
If you want to feel truly alive, you must align yourself with this universal truth. Taking action in alignment with your energy is to live consciously. Remaining only in mental motion is to live unconsciously.
The difference is simple but transformative:
- Action expands you, gives you results, and makes you feel alive.
- Motion contracts you, drains you, and keeps you stagnant.
Choosing Action Over Motion
You can decide in every moment whether you want to stay in the repetitive cycle of your mind’s motion, or whether you want to take a step forward into real action.
Every moment presents you with an opportunity. If you use that moment for motion, you lose it forever. If you use that moment for action, you create growth.
When you live an action-oriented life, you naturally become disciplined. You wake up knowing that every day is an opportunity to use your time, money, and energy wisely. You no longer waste life in overthinking, in unnecessary mental chatter, or in fear.
You become dynamic. You create momentum. And that momentum carries you towards greater possibilities, greater achievements, and greater peace.
Final Word
Your life force itself is action. To be in harmony with it is to live an action-oriented life. To ignore it is to fall into the trap of motion, where energy is lost and life is wasted.
Start small, but start today. Take action on something your heart tells you to do. Allow yourself to step out of motion. That one action will create another, and another, until your life becomes a continuous flow of conscious, powerful actions.
In this flow, you will feel fully alive, integrated, and free.
