The Impossibility of Uncours Action

Actions are not by their very nature the effects of passions or desires that precede our action and cause us to do things. I think action involves a self-direction at a goal and the goal is provided not by some past cause but by the very content of the mental event of choosing it so it's internally generated. Doesn't that sound a bit like picking yourself up by your own shoelaces as if you could lift both your feet off the ground by pulling on your own Shoelaces? There's nothing I think impossible about it.