: '''Belief'''
: '''Initiates and guides action--'''
: '''Or it does nothing.'''
-[[Octavia Butler]], Parable of the Sower
=== Getting into [[Action]] ===
Human willpower is shockingly limited. We live most of our lives on the basis of familiar, comfortable routines, despite the myriad amazing possibilities that [[Life]] has to offer. To carve enough time out of our routines to start to do something truly different is staggeringly difficult. When seeking to start working toward a goal as large as [[TheDestiny]], the problem is compounded by [[scale paralysis]], the inevitable feeling that whatever one person does is pointlessly tiny against the scale of the goal to be achieved.
From this, we can learn two valuable things:
* For each of us, work on developing one or more of the [[SolSeedProjects]] '''must become a new routine''', a habit built into the shape of our lives. Otherwise we will muster the willpower to do this work far too rarely. Regular [[Group Experiences]] are an excellent example of such a routine. One next step is to make a habit of adding [[words]] to this website ''other'' than meeting notes.
* We need a plan in which many small, achievable [[SolSeedProjects]] '''add up to significant progress''' toward [[TheDestiny]]. Each project should be rewarding in its own right, a tangible expression of our belief in [[bringing life]]. Thus, the completion of a [[SolSeedProjects|SolSeedProject]] will satisfy us on two levels: the immediate sense of accomplishment, and the knowledge that we have made a real, solid, useful, important step in our "journey of a thousand miles" (or light-years) toward fulfilling [[TheDestiny]].
For more on this topic, see [[Being a Starfarer|Chapter 1]] of the [[SolSeed book]].