The distinction between willing something and acting it out is very fine. When you will to bring about some desired future event, your centre of consciousness focuses itself downstream, bringing into awareness that path of slivers that links the two. But nothing actually 'happens'. You don't actually create something that wasn't there. You merely bring into relief one of many possibilities that is already there.
It's as if you are the pilot of a glider taking action to veer her craft so as to optimize and prolong the ride. It's self-perpetuation, basically.
Actions operate to maintain the equilibrium of the conscious state. They operate to keep the consciousness vehicle in good condition to the fullest extent possible. There would seem to be a strong parallel between the equilibrium associated with the sliver model and that of the atomic model with respect to chemical reactions. Maybe.
But in any case, 'doing' and 'being' aren't markedly different in nature.