Beyond the Obvious: A Strategy for Turning Information into Action
Let’s say you want to create something important to you. Important to you could mean it is aligned with your value systems. It could have deep psychological ramifications. And perhaps has plenty of emotion for you. These are usually the easiest ideas to manifest in external reality as the juice behind what you’re trying to create.
Now that you’ve decided what you want, the actions you take in relation to that can help get you closer to that becoming a reality for you. You take actions with whatever information is present for you. The more information you make available, the more likelihood the actions you take will get you what you want, which is what brings me to the point of this entire blogpost.
What do you do with the information when what you’re wanting to create isn’t coming about? I’ve organized three options for you here to examine for yourself in the case that things aren’t working out and what you might be able to do next that will move you forward.
Option 1) Reveal Hidden Opportunities
This first option comes in at the point of which what you’re trying to create already exists where you are; you just can’t see it yet. The information available to you doesn’t make available to you what you want and therefore, it is as though it doesn’t exist. As an example, I’m in a city. The city on the surface doesn’t have the events going on that I’m looking for. However, there is something called the ‘underground’ which does have it. If I don’t know what to look for or more importantly in this case how to go about looking for it, I’ll never find it. You need to change how you're perceiving the information so you can start to look for stuff that wasn’t there for you yet or at the very least notice things in your environment that you hadn’t before that can get what you want to show up in your experience one way or another. Because it could be that what I want is in fact available right here in front of me, and I just can't see it yet because of how I'm examining the information showing up.
Option 2) Pivot Your Approach
Your next option comes at the point of which no matter how you change how you look at the info, the info doesn’t change. Instead of changing how you see the information, you’re going to change what you do with it. That is, just do something different. For example, I’ll take myself again. Let’s say there is no music scene on the surface nor does an underground exist or you can’t get an invitation. You change what you do with all this information and become a hub or a beacon in the same locale reorganizing the information so that you can't not create what you've been trying to find. You become the center from which all that you’re trying to build can show up around. You’re now the community leader pushing the game forward for everyone.
Option 3) Explore New Horizons
In the case that how you look at the information and what you do with the information makes no difference whatsoever, you can always go somewhere else. By doing so, you’re now inviting new information in that you can both change how you at and what you do with so as to create what you want. This could mean you go one block over from your neighborhood and meet a new friend or change cities or countries and meet entirely different communities, each with their own levels of information that you can change how you look at and what you do with if by inviting that information in you don’t automatically make those changes now.
In closing, it largely, if you can’t tell already, becomes about how you handle the information coming in and are inviting in which means whether you’re revealing hidden opportunities, pivoting your approach, or exploring new horizons, the choice comes down to this … what are you going to do differently that you didn’t know you could do yet that’s going to either get you what you want or get you one step close. With that being said, keep going, keep moving, and keep taking action. I’ll see you on the other side!
