# Action
Action is what a being does.
## Meaning
Action is how meaning enters life.
Action can be speaking, building, choosing, practicing, pausing, repairing, measuring, publishing, listening, resting, stopping, starting, or revising.
Action is different from intention, [[Decision|decision]], prediction, and result.
A decision chooses what happens next.
Action does or attempts what was chosen.
A prediction says what is expected before action.
A result is what happened after action.
Action reveals [[Direction|direction]] because what a being does shows where energy is moving.
Action can serve a [[Purpose|purpose]].
In Joe's Mynd, action should be evaluated by whether it supports [[Well-being|well-being]], [[Health|health]], [[Relationship|relationship]], and [[Meaning|meaning]].
Aligned action is action that follows from clarified meaning.
Action evaluation is the practice of seeing whether action promotes health, disrupts health, or is neutral.
## Source Of Meaning
This note is grounded in Joe's goal for meaning to become better action, relationship, and well-being, and in the decision-test loop connecting [[Decision]], prediction, result, lived test, and meaning revision.
## Relationship Over Time
This note should mature through real choices where Joe sees how clarified meaning changes what he does.
## Links
- [[Being]]
- [[Decision]]
- [[Direction]]
- [[Purpose]]
- [[Well-being Decision Check]]
- [[Relational Action]]
- [[Well-being]]
- [[Health]]
- [[Relationship]]
- [[Meaning]]
- [[Source Of Meaning]]
## Tensions
Action can create clarity, but it can also create pressure if Joe feels every meaning must immediately become output. Some action is stillness, waiting, listening, recovery, or refusal.
## Question
What is being done?