How to walk your talk
How many people here have goals in their life… dreams they want to fulfil? Having ideas and dreams are great in developing a vision for your life, but this simply isn’t enough.
No matter how big or small your goal is, if you want to be successful in producing any real results in your life you would have to take some kind of action. Knowing what we want just isn’t enough – we want to engage all of our senses and realize our dreams and desires. You can talk and dream about things all your life but it just won’t produce any results. Action transforms desires and ideas into reality.
The challenge is that we’ve all been told a big lie and that is that we cann’t live our dreams and that we can’t have what we desire; that only those who are “lucky” get to live their dreams. Nothing could be further from the truth. You have the ability to be, do and have anything you desire. Having an idea or a desire automatically gives you the ability to create it on the “outside world” – all you need to do is to transform it from an idea into it’s physical equivalent.
The critical ingredient in doing this comes down to taking action. Action is the activating force that allows you to transform your ideas into it’s physical equivalent. So many people “talk” a great game, but very few live it every day. My suggestion for you is to learn how to walk your talk; to learn how to apply ideas into your by understanding how your mind works and then using it to become action minded; to just do it!
What does it mean to take action? An action can roughly be defined as something you do; when your thoughts and intentions are backed up by physical and mental effort to produce a result. When something happens to you it is not considered an action. The only way then to produce any real action is to firstly have an intention and then invest time and effort (physical or emotional) into the idea or intention.
The important fact is that taking action is something that YOU have to do and it is not something that is done to you or for you. Jim Rohn said it best when he said that “you can’t hire someone to do push-ups for you. You have to firstly take responsibility and realize that you and only you can and will produce the results you want from and for your life. Only Actions Produce Results…
It doesn’t take a complicated idea to change your life. What it takes is an idea that you act upon and use by implementing it in your life. When you take an idea and you make it part of your life; of who you are and what you do, then the idea will produce an effect or a result. In fact, ALL actions produce results.
Whether these results are what you intend or not is not really all that relevant. The important thing is that you create something tangible from an idea. Whether your outcome is a success or a failure is entirely up to your own judgement. Every action is a cause set in motion that creates a movement in a direction. Your Personal Power is your ability to take action and is one of the greatest gifts you possess as a human being. This is an ability you already possess and all that is required is for you to exercise it. Like a muscle you have to grow in your capacity to use and develop it fully.
The goal is not to gain more information but to apply and use the information that you have Tony Robbins once said that the secret to success is not in knowing what to do, but to do what you already know. Knowledge is of no use unless you put it into practise
Consistency is key
If you are going to produce some real results in your life you need to take control of your consistent actions. It is not what you do every once in a while that make the difference but it is your consistent actions that will weave the fabric of success for a lifetime. we want our results to be consistent. We don’t want to experience happiness once a week, but we want to feel happy most of the time. Remember it is your actions and not your intentions that create results.
- Commitment 1 -Identify your two most important goals; two things that you really want in/for your life and commit to take 2 actions on each one of them every day for the next 4 weeks.
- Commitment 2 Commit to keep a journal of the actions you take every day. The goal is to make taking action a habit; something that “just happens” and not something that you have to consistently force yourself to do.
- Commitment 3 - Do something impulsive every week. Most of us are locked up in inaction because we live by what’s “safe” and “appropriate.” Act first, think later (but please don’t do anything insane). Act as soon as you get the impulse to do it!
Sitting still and wishing Makes no person great.
The Good Lord sends the fishes.
But you must dig the bait.