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Originally Posted by PornoDoggy
A decision is a mental process (I need coffee).
An action is a physical process (I go get coffee).
The decision has no impact UNLESS you take action.
If a decision was an action, I would have lost 75 pounds and no longer consume tobacco products.
I have made the decision that I need to loose weight many times. I have made the decision that I need to quit smoking many times.
My failure to take subsequent actions to effect those changes does not negate the decision.
The decision that you need coffee has an impact on no one.
The action of going to get coffee can impact many people. If, for example, you run over a cop in a crosswalk the impact of your actions (leaving the house, starting the car, blah blah blah) will ripple around you.
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You may have decided that you need to lose weight which would be one of the first actions taken in the process. You subsequently decided, for whatever reason, not to take the additional action necessary to lose the weight. However, if you never decided that you need to lose the weigth, then you wouldn't lose it unless of course as the result of some other action such as a virus infection where you don't eat.
The decision itself is an action as much as anything else we do.
While we are alive we are in constant motion, we are incapable of NOT taking action every nanosecond that we live and breath.