As for wanting to learn japanese one reason is that quite a few of my common activities involve interacting with japanese material or japanese people (I do japanese martial arts). So I feel drawn and wanted to understand more about the japanese culture through their own words, not a translation.

In addition when I started learning I discovered it to be incredibly difficult and as I enjoy a challenge, learning is part of why I want to do it.

That all being said I still don’t know totally why I want to learn it. It is more like a culmination of many parts of my life. Consequently I’m taking a slightly extended holiday to japan to explore what it is actually like there.

Dream and act, but re-evaluate along the way. The efficient path to a interesting series of events.

I’m a firm believer that any internal state can be achieved through managing my own thoughts. I shouldn’t say I’m a believer, it’s how I live.

However I believe that acquiring any physical things that one desires requires some physical effort along the way.

If I’m wrong about this I would like to investigate further. Can you provide a link to somewhere I can read more about this aspect?

Deep down, the only reason we ever take action is because we think doing so will result in us feeling better. Either by striving to gain/experience something we think we’ll enjoy, or to avoid something we fear we’ll resent.

Why believe that action is a necessity for results when you can so easily feel better just by thinking better thoughts? With so much contrast out there, so much resistance in the way of any truly daring dream, why should we strive to take action in order to achieve? Why add to the pushing against that most action ends up manifesting as?

Action is a blessing if it helps us believe, but a bottleneck if it becomes the only way believable. We must stretch our imaginations beyond what’s presently proven to work if we’re ever to reach the heights of human potential.

History repeats itself only because we allow the drum of what’s been done to bang louder than the dream of what we can realized. But it’s never too late to jump off the treadmill of life and begin walking a higher path.

If you could send me an email I would like to hear more about how thoughts can get results without action.

Also if you let your muscles rest they don’t get bigger, they atrophy and degenerate. Through working out combined with rest you build muscle.

In truth, action is just an outlet for the thought that created it and there are many other mediums through which thought can manifest. Action, for its part, is primarily a means of experiencing reality, not creating it.

You don’t build muscle by working out. You build muscle by resting.

Intentions count for nothing before taking action and then they count for everything once you begin as they are transformed into motivation.