Why go or read?

Why do we go to the conference or read the book? To gain information, knowledge, or ideas, we can utilize to better ourselves, assist the group or organization, we are apart improve. Then tell me, why do we not do anything with it? We go to the conference, we read the book, attend the webinar, and get all excited about what is being taught, or discovered. Then the book is shelved, the webinar and conference are forgotten about, until you are trying to make a point to someone, or make an impression on people but nothing changes in your life to show your elevated thinking. Why waste the money, your time, and energy on what you have no intention to implement or utilize. See, none of the going, the learning, the reading, actually matters unless you do something with it. Like everything in life, you have to work it to get it, what use of having it, if you are not going to use it. We too many times are caught in the doing the thing, not applying, implementing, or developing. Then we wonder why, nothing change, nothing improve, nothing got better, and we are still in the stagnate maddening place. Yet, we do nothing to change because it is never about what you did at the conference, or the feeling you get from the book. It is always about what you do with the information and knowledge gather, after the excited, after the experience. We must produce something from what we gain, if what we gained is to have value, and show it has affect on our lives. See we show what we believe, what is part of us with our actions, not with our words. So, the next time you go to a conference or read a book that provides an epiphany or an ah-ha moment, asked yourself – how can I show others what I just learned? Otherwise, the trip was about me, my, not about growth. For growth requires, thinking outside and beyond self because in giving do we gain.
People change and forget to tell each other.- Lillian Hellman