First of all your name is all wrong - You are never at a LostForWords. You seem to always come up with the right ones. Your contribution to this thread so far has been invaluable!
Of course the actions are necessary. When you don't paint the house it rots. JFK certainly knew what he was talking about.
So I guess my question is which of these actions is needed? Certainly this is an individual thing as each sich is different. We are all in our own areas of expertise. But if I liken this to baseball we all need to go touch all four bases and then go back into the dugout. Maybe after that we become a manager or coach and help others go around the bases. In some innings we get left at first or second base, and have to repeat our trip again. The basic idea being that we have to complete the trip. We need certain skills to do this, hitting, running, thinking. Leave one of these things out and you may keep running into left field.