Jay Shetty

But in its original philosophical context, karma simply means action.

Karma is the act itself, and the Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the world's most sophisticated treatise on action, specifically on the relationship between action, identity, and liberation.

Krishna's central teaching to Arjun in the Gita is not figure out your purpose and then act.

It is act without attachment to the outcome, and purpose will reveal itself.

Listen to that again, write it down, think about that.

The action comes first.

the clarity follows.

So many people are paralyzed waiting to know, waiting to be sure, waiting for the vision to be clear enough before they risk moving toward it.

And the painful irony is that the waiting is the very thing preventing the clarity from arriving.

Here's the immediate application and it's simply enough to do today.

You don't need to know the five-year plan.

You just need to know your next five steps.

You don't need to know where you'll be in 10 years.

All you need to know is what you're going to do next.

Today, whatever it is, whether it's a phone call, an application, a conversation, an hour spent doing the thing instead of thinking about the thing, the clarity you're waiting for is hiding inside the action that

You keep postponing.

Stop waiting to know.

Start doing to find out.

Mindset five.

You don't rise to your goals.