Doing is what we do, mostly. We have chore lists swimming around our heads, to-do lists on our computer and our desks. It’s one of those things that appear to control our lives. We ‘do doing’ so much that we mostly forget to be. Remember we are a ‘being’ not a ‘doing’!

What does it mean to be? Being happens when we’re in a state of mindful alertness. We’re alert to what’s going on in and around us, but we stay as witnesses to it, we don’t participate in what’s going on either physically or mentally! Mental doing is manufacturing thoughts about what we see, smell, hear, touch or experience in any way. We manufacture chains of thoughts, continuously. So doing also entails thinking ‘about’ stuff. When we can just be, we enable inspiration, purposefulness, ideation and ideal setting.

How can we enable inspiration by just being? In primarily two ways:

1. When our mind is quiet we can think more clearly. Clarity in thought allows us to solve our problems and design solutions more efficiently and purposefully.

2. When we’re just being, we can tap into other sources of knowledge via intuition and similar faculties. The Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University shows how we are all connected in some fashion.

Now ‘being’ doesn’t mean that we spend all our days just sitting around! No, it means that we must balance our being with our doing. Allow for a natural rhythm to occur in your life. Take time to just be. Allow time for writing and journaling your thoughts. Get to know yourself better and make better plans for the doing part.

1. Then do.
2. Then be.
3. Repeat.

What you’ve now achieved is a virtuous cycle of living, one that will support your highest happiness and fulfillment!

The BeDo Virtuous Continuum