**Belief**
**Initiates and guides action--**
**Or it does nothing.**
-[Octavia Butler](/Octavia_Butler), Parable of the Sower
#### Getting into [Action](/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](/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](/TheDestiny), the problem is compounded by [scale paralysis](/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](/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](/Group_Experiences) are an excellent example of such a routine. One next step is to make a habit of adding [words](/words) to this website *other* than meeting notes.
- We need a plan in which many small, achievable [SolSeedProjects](/SolSeedProjects) **add up to significant progress** toward [TheDestiny](/TheDestiny). Each project should be rewarding in its own right, a tangible expression of our belief in [bringing life](/bringing_life). Thus, the completion of a [SolSeedProject](/SolSeedProjects) 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](/TheDestiny).
For more on this topic, see [Chapter 1](/Being_a_Starfarer) of the [SolSeed book](/SolSeed_book).