Action plans

# Chapter 233

Action plans are where it is at! It will move you from fretting and frustration to calm and purpose. You will know what your next steps will be. You will not have time to fret because you will be working on the next step, the next assignment, the next part of your detailed action plan.

I recently had to upgrade my commitment and work on detailed action plans because I was losing sleep and worrying about things too much. It is much more helpful to take an action step than it is to worry. It is much more helpful to take as action step than it is to lose sleep and toss and turn for hours. Decide which you had rather have, worry, or a next step? I have already decided that I want to take the next action step and not toss and turn for hours. Am I oversimplifying this? Not really. But having a detailed action plan requires work and thinking which is the most difficult work of all. Fretting is not thinking even though you are thinking/fretting about what you should do. That is just a loop of worry going around in circles inside your head.

Thinking, and a detailed action plan requires of most people, quiet concentrated uninterrupted time to decide what outcomes are most desirable or needed, and what are the most productive actions to get those outcomes. Most of us struggle to find uninterrupted time at all. Many of us hate quiet. Then you have other things to resolve.