Make That Difference Today - How Taking Action is Vital to Your Success
I believe action is be one of the biggest factors that separates success from failure, action is the difference between living the life you want from the life you don't want.
From having what you want to going without.
Whether action is reading a book, writing a book, creating a website, helping others, selling your house, self development, quitting a bad habit, learning a language, taking up an evening class to learn a new hobby or skill, re-writing your CV, contacting friends you haven't seen for a while, improving yourself in some way or forcing yourself out of your comfort zone, action has an undeniable quality about it, it can't be ignored and is an absolute must when creating change in your life.
Let's say you want to start your own business, you have thought about it for a long time, read numerous books on the subject, spoken to people about your plans, they are all for it! But you still don't do it! Why? We all have ideas for products that could be very successful but how many people talk about it and how many people actually decide to do something about it? We all know of people who talk about what they want to do in the future, but how many of these same people are actually doing it months later? You have a real chance of success when you take action, you immediately start to make progress against the goals you have set for yourself, you start learning about what works and what doesn't.
However little your initial steps maybe, by taking these steps you are saying 'This is what I want and this is what I am going to do about it'.
Rather than just sit there and think about taking action.
I know if there was a medal for thinking about taking action then I would surely win it, but there isn't and rightly so.
However here's another way to look at it, if you don't take action towards whatever it is you want in your life, you are absolutely 100% guaranteed not to get it.
By not taking action you are sealing your fate before you have even attempted to start.
Nothing comes from nothing right? I firmly believe that if you take action towards your goals or whatever you want to change in your life, then you are already doing more than a lot of people out there.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step ..
" -Lao Tzu What stops people taking action? There is simply far too much to gain from taking action then not taking it when you are on a course of self development.
You know something has to change, and yet you still don't take action, why is this? I am guilty of this myself.
Laziness? Motivation? Money? Time? Fear? Maybe you think your goal is too big, and that whatever you do today will have no impact so you don't bother doing anything, this is a classic mistake to make, believing that what you do today has no impact on the overall goal.
But doing something is always better than doing nothing, little by little great things can be achieved, it's the simply little changes in you daily life that over time can make the biggest impact.
It is by making a commitment to yourself each day to do something towards improving your life, however small, that over time will affect your life greatly.
Before you know it, real big changes have been made.
Businesses are created, relationships formed, languages learned, lasting changes made.
Break the problem down into smaller chunks, instead of looking at the overall outcome.
What is it that you are going to do today that will make a difference in your life tomorrow? Let's say you have a characteristic about yourself you want to improve, for example to be more socially confident, from where you are now (shy, timid and nervous), this may seem like a long way off, but if each day you make a commitment to do something about it and then take action to achieve it, you are already on your way to overcoming the problem and becoming more socially confident.
The commitment you make to yourself each day to take action will always be what separates you from everybody else.
The ability to act is what separates people.
Action moves mountains! If you want to go anywhere in life, if you want your life to change in any way shape or form you are going to have to sit up and take action.
Make a plan of what you need to do and then take the necessary steps everyday.
Even if it is 10 minutes a day, it will always be better than doing nothing.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
" -Joe Sabah In 6 months time how on earth do you expect your life to be different if you aren't doing anything about it right now? ~Here's a newsflash, if you aren't taking action today, tomorrow or the next day to work towards your goals then guess what? You and your life will be exactly the same in 6 months time as it is now! You will never have any chance of success (whatever that means to you) if you don't take action.
Taking action is no 100% guarantee of success; just because you are taking an acting class doesn't mean you will one day win an Oscar.
But not doing anything about your life will guarantee nothing improves.
"There are three kinds of people; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
" -Nicholas Butler Murray Remember that your future is created not by what you do tomorrow but by what you do today.
From having what you want to going without.
Whether action is reading a book, writing a book, creating a website, helping others, selling your house, self development, quitting a bad habit, learning a language, taking up an evening class to learn a new hobby or skill, re-writing your CV, contacting friends you haven't seen for a while, improving yourself in some way or forcing yourself out of your comfort zone, action has an undeniable quality about it, it can't be ignored and is an absolute must when creating change in your life.
Let's say you want to start your own business, you have thought about it for a long time, read numerous books on the subject, spoken to people about your plans, they are all for it! But you still don't do it! Why? We all have ideas for products that could be very successful but how many people talk about it and how many people actually decide to do something about it? We all know of people who talk about what they want to do in the future, but how many of these same people are actually doing it months later? You have a real chance of success when you take action, you immediately start to make progress against the goals you have set for yourself, you start learning about what works and what doesn't.
However little your initial steps maybe, by taking these steps you are saying 'This is what I want and this is what I am going to do about it'.
Rather than just sit there and think about taking action.
I know if there was a medal for thinking about taking action then I would surely win it, but there isn't and rightly so.
However here's another way to look at it, if you don't take action towards whatever it is you want in your life, you are absolutely 100% guaranteed not to get it.
By not taking action you are sealing your fate before you have even attempted to start.
Nothing comes from nothing right? I firmly believe that if you take action towards your goals or whatever you want to change in your life, then you are already doing more than a lot of people out there.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step ..
" -Lao Tzu What stops people taking action? There is simply far too much to gain from taking action then not taking it when you are on a course of self development.
You know something has to change, and yet you still don't take action, why is this? I am guilty of this myself.
Laziness? Motivation? Money? Time? Fear? Maybe you think your goal is too big, and that whatever you do today will have no impact so you don't bother doing anything, this is a classic mistake to make, believing that what you do today has no impact on the overall goal.
But doing something is always better than doing nothing, little by little great things can be achieved, it's the simply little changes in you daily life that over time can make the biggest impact.
It is by making a commitment to yourself each day to do something towards improving your life, however small, that over time will affect your life greatly.
Before you know it, real big changes have been made.
Businesses are created, relationships formed, languages learned, lasting changes made.
Break the problem down into smaller chunks, instead of looking at the overall outcome.
What is it that you are going to do today that will make a difference in your life tomorrow? Let's say you have a characteristic about yourself you want to improve, for example to be more socially confident, from where you are now (shy, timid and nervous), this may seem like a long way off, but if each day you make a commitment to do something about it and then take action to achieve it, you are already on your way to overcoming the problem and becoming more socially confident.
The commitment you make to yourself each day to take action will always be what separates you from everybody else.
The ability to act is what separates people.
Action moves mountains! If you want to go anywhere in life, if you want your life to change in any way shape or form you are going to have to sit up and take action.
Make a plan of what you need to do and then take the necessary steps everyday.
Even if it is 10 minutes a day, it will always be better than doing nothing.
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
" -Joe Sabah In 6 months time how on earth do you expect your life to be different if you aren't doing anything about it right now? ~Here's a newsflash, if you aren't taking action today, tomorrow or the next day to work towards your goals then guess what? You and your life will be exactly the same in 6 months time as it is now! You will never have any chance of success (whatever that means to you) if you don't take action.
Taking action is no 100% guarantee of success; just because you are taking an acting class doesn't mean you will one day win an Oscar.
But not doing anything about your life will guarantee nothing improves.
"There are three kinds of people; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
" -Nicholas Butler Murray Remember that your future is created not by what you do tomorrow but by what you do today.