<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Robert Ringer - speaker &#038; author" title="Robert Ringer - speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/robert-ringer.jpg" />There are two basic kinds of actions.  One is pro-action, which puts you on the offensive and gives you a great deal of control over events.  The other is reaction, which puts you on the defensive and relegates you to an inherent position of weakness. </p>
<p>An interesting way of looking at inaction is that it&#8217;s really just a negative form of action, a sort of black hole that sucks energy away from you much the same as the black holes of the universe pull matter into the deep recesses of their cosmic bowels. This is why inaction often yields consequences by default. If you wait for something, or someone, to act on you, you likely will be unable to control the consequences.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/09/motivation-lesson-the-best-day-is-today-by-robert-ringer/" title="Permanent Link: Motivation Lesson: The Best Day is Today By Robert Ringer" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1646,"date":"2012-09-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2023-03-13T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T03:43:51","slug":"motivation-lesson-the-best-day-is-today-by-robert-ringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/09\/motivation-lesson-the-best-day-is-today-by-robert-ringer\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation Lesson: The Best Day is Today By Robert Ringer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Robert Ringer - speaker &#038; author\" title=\"Robert Ringer - speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/robert-ringer.jpg\" \/>There are two basic kinds of actions.  One is pro-action, which puts you on the offensive and gives you a great deal of control over events.  The other is reaction, which puts you on the defensive and relegates you to an inherent position of weakness. <\/p>\n<p>An interesting way of looking at inaction is that it&#8217;s really just a negative form of action, a sort of black hole that sucks energy away from you much the same as the black holes of the universe pull matter into the deep recesses of their cosmic bowels. This is why inaction often yields consequences by default. If you wait for something, or someone, to act on you, you likely will be unable to control the consequences.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/09\/motivation-lesson-the-best-day-is-today-by-robert-ringer\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Motivation Lesson: The Best Day is Today By Robert Ringer\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}