Don't do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow... an attitude that I come across all to frequently. With this attitude, you can ensure that you long-finger important tasks, waste energy worrying that you've long-fingered them and then feel guilty that you didn't get what you needed to get done - it's a package deal in stupidity.

If youi've something important to do - maybe it's something that you'd prefer not to have to do - get it over with, do it now, stop wasting time and energy.

Over the last coupe of years, we've had a number of series - of videos and related reflections and tips - in our weekly Ezine. Remember, you can always revisit these series - you'll find the links to each below. And, in the coming weeks, we'll be launching a new searchable Ezine archive to enable you browse all the Ezines, all the way back to Issue No. 1 in December 2008.

Imagine that you're standing on the shore of a beautiful calm lake - you can see the reflection of the mountains, trees and sky on the mirror-like surface of the water. You bend down and put your index finger into the water, causing gentle ripples to move outwards in all directions from the epicentre of your finger. A simple act has a subtle but widespread impact as the ripples spread out across the water.

Quantum physics tells us that we live in such a universe - every time you put your finger in the energy of the universe, the ripples that you have initiated spread outward in all directions. Your acts have impacts. Your inaction has an impact too, or rather, if you do nothing, nothing is affected. You have to choose between action and inaction in the furtherance of achieving the happiness and success that you want to achieve.

We normally choose inaction... normally, because our normal minds are wired that way; even when we act, it's so half-hearted that there is precious little ripple effect. More often than not, however, we don't bother to take any real action at all. We react. We take comfort in doing the things that make us feel busy or occupied and set aside the important things that we know we need to do to get us to where we want to go. Yet the science is very clear: every action leads to a reaction from universal energy and all energy - that would include your's and mine - is connected. What we do, or fail to do, brings about either what we want or, more normally, a continuation of what we would prefer to change.

Even when we choose action, we normally fall short of our own capability. Decades of research suggests that "half-hearted" is far too generous a description of our actions: research suggesting that, if anything, we're only marginally involved in our own lives. To truly cause a ripple effect, to begin to notice the proven capability of universal energy to respond to our intentions, we need to become completely engrossed in our lives - the very moment-to-moment of how life is lived. We've got add our attention to our intention, to pay our full and unadulterated attention to the reality of the here and now.

Energy only responds to intention when attention is added, when you pay full attention to the reality of the moment and to what you are doing in the moment. Paying that quality of attention to the here and now is akin to plunging your fist into that millpond of universal energy and, as a result, really making waves.