{"id":55838,"date":"2019-11-24T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/the-power-of-actions\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:28:26","slug":"the-power-of-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/the-power-of-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BlogHandlungen.jpg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center_right&#8221; height=&#8221;700px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;60px||||false|false&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;-50ms&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;20%&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; background_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; background_horizontal_offset_phone=&#8221;43%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; alt=&#8221;Die Macht der Handlungen&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Die Macht der Handlungen&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; background_horizontal_offset_tablet=&#8221;27%&#8221;][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;50px||0px||false|false&#8221; bottom_divider_color=&#8221;#990091&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;1280px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|100px||100px|true|true&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;|50px||50px|true|true&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;|30px||30px|true|true&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|30px|30px|30px|30px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#990091&#8243; header_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#B0987D&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||11px||false|false&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;300ms&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Do it or don&#8217;t do it<\/h1>\n<h3>Why action (and non-action) shapes your reality<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;6px&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; header_3_font_size=&#8221;17px&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_5_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_5_text_color=&#8221;#6b6b6b&#8221; header_5_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-2px|||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;500ms&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the size of your desires that determines whether they become reality, but the size of the actions through which you express their inevitable arrival.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This sentence is more than just food for thought. It&#8217;s a reference to a mechanism that works in every human being &#8211; permanently. And once you understand it, you suddenly see why so many people &#8220;know&#8221; what they should do, but don&#8217;t do it&#8230; and why they then believe at some point that it&#8217;s due to a lack of talent, a lack of opportunities or simply &#8220;bad luck&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s almost always due to something else: to what you communicate to your subconscious through your actions &#8211; and through your non-actions.<\/p>\n<h2>What actions really are<\/h2>\n<p>Most people look at actions almost exclusively from the outside:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;What will others think?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;How do I look?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;What happens if I do that?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is understandable, but not the decisive point.<\/p>\n<p>What you communicate internally is more important. Because with every action you send a message to your subconscious: <br \/><em><strong>&#8220;This is important.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Or: <em><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s not important.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And your subconscious doesn&#8217;t make moral judgments. It only registers what you do &#8211; and what you don&#8217;t do. It draws conclusions from this and adjusts your perception accordingly.  <\/p>\n<h2>The law behind it: cause and effect<\/h2>\n<p>In the Fearless Code, this isn&#8217;t a &#8220;motivational slogan&#8221;, but a law of nature: cause produces effect &#8211; always.<\/p>\n<p>This also applies to actions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When you take an action, it&#8217;s an effect of your thoughts.<\/li>\n<li>If you refrain from an action, this is also an effect of your thoughts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And both &#8211; action and non-action &#8211; subsequently become causes again. With consequences. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s therefore illogical to believe that &#8220;doing nothing&#8221; has no consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Doing nothing is also a statement.<br \/>And it&#8217;s often the loudest statement of all.<\/p>\n<h2>The underestimated power of non-action<\/h2>\n<p>Many people sabotage themselves not by what they do &#8211; but by what they don&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n<p>If you refrain from an action that would express that you believe in yourself, then you&#8217;re &#8211; logically &#8211; expressing something else:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doubts<\/li>\n<li>Non-confidence<\/li>\n<li>Despondency<\/li>\n<li>Uncertainty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s fear.<\/p>\n<p>A simple example:<br \/>You want to feel better, but &#8220;don&#8217;t feel like&#8221; going out, moving, calling someone, changing a small thing. In this case, you&#8217;re not expressing &#8220;neutrality&#8221; by refraining from doing something, but very specifically: <br \/><em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s pointless.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>&#8220;I am powerless.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s dangerous.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your subconscious registers this. And it programs your selective perception accordingly: you will perceive even more clues that confirm to you that it&#8217;s &#8220;pointless&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>This creates a cycle &#8211; and at some point it feels like &#8220;reality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Why &#8220;knowledge&#8221; remains worthless without action<\/h2>\n<p>A central point in the Fearless Code is extremely uncomfortable &#8211; and that&#8217;s precisely why it&#8217;s so liberating:<\/p>\n<p>If knowledge is really available, it will be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Not perfect. Not fanatical. But consistent. Because those who understand the consequences automatically act differently.   <\/p>\n<p>Many people say: <em>&#8220;I already know that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But when they are then observed in everyday life, it becomes clear that the supposed knowledge is not applied. And that doesn&#8217;t mean that they are &#8220;weak&#8221;. It just means that:  <\/p>\n<p>The old beliefs are still running.<br \/>And they control actions &#8211; subconsciously.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why a single sentence, a single word or a single action &#8211; or non-action &#8211; can sabotage everything again, even if you have &#8220;mentally built yourself up&#8221; beforehand.<\/p>\n<h2>Talking is also an action<\/h2>\n<p>An underestimated example is communication.<\/p>\n<p>Talking is an action. And many people do something very strange: <\/p>\n<p>They deal with solutions &#8211; and then turn around and talk about suffering again. They confirm the old situation with words. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not &#8220;being honest&#8221;. It&#8217;s programming. <\/p>\n<p>Because negative and positive don&#8217;t coexist permanently: if you build yourself up internally and then express fear again through an action, you take one step forward and then one step back.<\/p>\n<h2>Inspired action: The lever that turns everything<\/h2>\n<p>The crucial thing isn&#8217;t that you feel good and <em>then<\/em> act.<\/p>\n<p>This is the old logic of fear.<\/p>\n<p>The new logic is:<br \/><strong>You act as you would if you were free of fear &#8211; regardless of how you feel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is what the Fearless Code calls inspired action.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it so powerful?<\/p>\n<p>Because your subconscious deduces what is important from your behavior. If you act despite uncertainty, your subconscious mind sees: <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;He no longer reacts to fear. He reacts to something else.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And step by step, it realigns your focus: away from danger and towards possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the difference between <em>&#8220;I hope it gets better&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m already moving as if better is possible&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Actions program your condition<\/h2>\n<p>Actions don&#8217;t just have external consequences. They directly change your state, your energy, your I-frequency. <\/p>\n<p>Actions that express qualities of love &#8211; courage, trust, confidence &#8211; raise your energy level. Actions that express qualities of fear &#8211; doubt, non-trust, separation &#8211; lower it. <\/p>\n<p>And again, non-action counts just as much.<\/p>\n<p>If you refrain from a positive action because you believe it&#8217;s useless, you&#8217;re expressing fear. If, on the other hand, you refrain from an action that would express fear (e.g. complaining, controlling, withdrawing out of defiance), then you&#8217;re expressing love by refraining. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s sometimes very beneficial to refrain from an action:<br \/>If you refrain from confirming your lack, you refrain from programming absence.<\/p>\n<h2>Why this knowledge is so effective<\/h2>\n<p>The Fearless Code isn&#8217;t a &#8220;mindset concept&#8221; that wants to convince you to believe something.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s effective because it shows you something that you can check immediately:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Thoughts have consequences.<\/li>\n<li>Actions have consequences.<\/li>\n<li>Failure to act has consequences.<\/li>\n<li>Everything follows cause and effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As soon as you really see this logic, many things in your life suddenly become comprehensible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why you sometimes &#8220;think the right way&#8221; and still don&#8217;t get anywhere.<\/li>\n<li>Why a single sentence can topple everything.<\/li>\n<li>Why fear is reinforced by avoidance.<\/li>\n<li>Why small actions often change more than big plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And above all, you realize: You&#8217;re not helpless. You always have a lever. <\/p>\n<p>This lever isn&#8217;t &#8220;perfect thinking&#8221;.<br \/>This lever isn&#8217;t &#8220;controlled emotions&#8221;.<br \/>This lever is <strong>conscious action<\/strong> &#8211; and conscious omission.<\/p>\n<h2>Two questions that can change everything<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to get into the habit of categorizing actions correctly, two questions are often enough:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What am I expressing by taking this action?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What am I expressing by refraining from this action?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Answer both questions objectively.<\/p>\n<p>And then decide &#8211; with your free will &#8211; how you want to act.<\/p>\n<p>Because in the end, that&#8217;s the essence:<\/p>\n<p>Your subconscious doesn&#8217;t follow your intentions.<br \/>It follows your signals.<\/p>\n<p>And your signals are: Thought, focus, action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||8px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjEwNDAwIn19@&#8221; button_text=&#8221;Return to Blog&#8221; button_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; _dynamic_attributes=&#8221;button_url&#8221; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; button_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; button_use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;1px|||||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;300ms&#8221; global_module=&#8221;55199&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consequences of action and inaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[309,212,262,265,310,210,242,264,258],"class_list":["post-55838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-en-2","tag-action","tag-beliefs","tag-focus","tag-goals","tag-non-action","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-confidence-en","tag-stress-en","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55838"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59480,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838\/revisions\/59480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}