Photo Phriday: What You Can Learn from the Assassin Bug
Assassin Bug Lurks in the Trees!
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The assassin bug remains on the move. Slowly, cautiously, he moves about the leaves and branches, hunting for his prey. The assassin bug doesn’t sit around daydreaming about his prey, hoping it will come to him. He hunts. He pursues. He’s on the move.
The assassin bug acts.
Much ado is made out of daydreaming these days. Oh, yes, people will give it fancy names. Positive thinking. Mental Manifestation. Cybernetic Transposition.
While our thoughts shape the world, while it is important to have goals and visualize them, while it is important to believe in yourself and in your ability to achieve your goals, it is not enough to simply daydream about them. The problem that people have in this world is not that they don’t spend enough time visualizing what they want, it’s that they don’t spend enough time taking action to achieve their goals!
If the assassin bug daydreams about his next meal, visualizing it coming to him, he will likely starve to death.
There is no doubt that the human mind is a powerful thing, but let us not forget that we also have hands! There is also no doubt that we all have a tendency to do the least amount of work necessary. And, that’s what makes these programs and systems with “creative visualization” and stuff so popular, as it gives us justification to sit there daydreaming instead of taking action! We argue we are taking “action” by visualizing what we want. Dream it and it will appear! It’s more like, dream it and the bill collectors will appear!
How many successful people do you know became successful by daydreaming? Call it wishful thinking, or mental manifestation, or cybernetic transposition or whatever term you want; it’s daydreaming. Do you know of anyone that became successful by daydreaming about their success? They became successful because they took action toward it!
If you want to wish yourself successful, you might as well play the lottery.
Have a goal, and visualize achieving that goal, but then do as the assassin bug does: pursue that goal! Take action toward that goal! Achieve that goal!
This bug sure has got will power and strives for its own!
We could all learn from the bug!
“If the assassin bug daydreams about his next meal, visualizing it coming to him, he will likely starve to death.” Brilliant line, dcr!
I am currently starting to read the book “The Law of Attraction” and I’ll try to have an open mind, but my thinking is along the lines of your post.
Very true, Dan! If we would hunt down our success the way the assassin bug hunts down its prey, we would be unstoppable!
Jeanne