Why Taking Action is the Thing That Matters?

Do you spend all of your free time reading and gathering information? Are you a self-help junkie that never seems to make any meaningful progress in your life? Are you trying to take your life to the next level by using the power of your mind alone?

Is that working for you?

Nothing changes until your behaviour changes. Sure, you might feel better about your life after all of your mental gymnastics, but is anything actually happening in your life from all of these intellectual efforts?

Take action and watch your life change before your eyes!

Do you know that it takes an average of 10.000 hours of practice to master a subject? Yes! 

• 10.000 hours of training to be a professional athlete
• 10.000 hours of practice to be a professional musician

10.000 hours on any task will “transform” you into a professional in that matter.  

Consider these ideas:

1. You have to do something for something to happen. Nothing happens until you act. You can’t wish or visualize your way to a plate of food, a fancy car, the partner of your dreams, or a successful business. Those things might make it easier for you to act, but you must still take action of some kind.

● Unless you’re telekinetic, you can’t even make a paperclip move across your desk without taking action.

● The more you want to accomplish, the bigger the action you’ll need to take.

2. It’s not what you can do that matters. It’s what you do that counts. The amount of capability you possess only increases the number of options you have available.

● Having options isn’t the same as choosing one and taking action.

3. Your beliefs, values, and thoughts influence your behaviour. For example, if you believe that you’re smart, capable, and good looking, your behaviour will be different from being simple-minded, incapable, and homely in appearance. Here are some more examples:

● Do you believe that failure is acceptable or to be avoided at all costs?

● Do you believe that most people are inherently good or inherently evil?

● Do you value safety or adventure?

● Do you have positive thoughts about your goals or negative?

● None of these things has any actual power in the world, other than that they can alter the choices you make and the actions you take.

4. The law of averages is ultimately on your side. If your dream is to play the piano, you can certainly do it. You have to keep trying. A pro pianist might better play a particular piece than you do, but you’ll most likely be successful eventually.

● When you take action, you get a result. You’re bound to get the result you want eventually if you take action long enough. Ultimately, the law of averages will pay off.

● When you do nothing, you always fail.

5. Action creates potential. When you take action, you can learn from your results. When you take action, things change. New opportunities become available. You might meet a new person that can help you get what you want. When you take the first step, the next step appears.

● Things start happening when you start moving. Nothing happens while you’re learning, scheming, and planning.

Things begin to change when your behaviour changes. You’ve proven this to yourself thousands of times throughout your life. Your life changed when you started school, changed schools, and made new friends. Your life was different after you made permanent changes to your diet or started a new diet.

You can’t just accumulate knowledge, daydream, or make grand plans. You have to DO new things.

When your behaviour changes, your life changes. How do you want your life to change? What can you DO to make it happen? When will you get started?

It is weird to see a non-marketing related post over here, but the idea is to inspire you to stop thinking and put you in action mode. 

Try new things, if it doesn’t work well, change strategy, but keep doing, keep trying, keep going!!  

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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