Fortunately, being decisive and taking action is a skill that can be learned. Successful people do the opposite of unsuccessful people in as much as they make decisions quickly and change them slowly, if at all. Unsuccessful people make decisions slowly and change them quickly.
Unsuccessful people want everything in place BEFORE beginning on a goal achieving journey. They continually ask 'What If Something Happens?' Successful people ask 'What if it doesn't happen?
Top achievers do not wait until every 'I' is dotted and every 't' is crossed before they decide to take a course of action. Once they feel they have enough information to make a decision that is just what they do. They then use the time on their journey to modify plans, take different directions, even stop and re-consider. But they took the initial action to get going. Non-achievers procrastinate and are subject to inertia.
It was Dr. Martin Luther King who said, 'Take the first step; You do not need to see the whole staircase before you, just take the first step in faith.
You see there is no shame in failure. To successful people failure is only finding out that what they were doing needed modifying..... they learn from the experience.
I have experienced both situations, although I have always been known as a person who makes decisions quickly, charging headlong on some activities that were doomed to failure. But each time I did not succeed another lesson was learned. What I was doing was not the correct way to reach the goal I wanted. Time for analysis and modification - so what... at least I was going toward my goal not sitting hoping something would happen.
There were times in the past when I used to blame anything around me. People, events or situations for my lack of success. I always had an excuse. You know what is the wonderful thing about our minds? We cannot tell ourselves lies. Think about it. When you are looking to blame someone else for your lack of success isn't that an outside thing? Don't you just know deep inside yourself that the responsibility really lies with you?
Remember... when you point a finger there are always three fingers pointing back. There are three types of people in the world as far as I am concerned.
Those that make things happen; Those that sit back and watch what is happening and finally those that say 'What happened?'
Which group are you in?
Fortunately for me, I've learned to take responsibility for my own actions and everything that is in my life NOW is a direct result of ME bringing it into my life. Nobody else - ME!
It is amazing how little effort you need to exert to start off making things happen in your life. As you start toward your goal you attract more and more energy that drives you toward success. Getting into action helps you maintain action; it's the simple law of physics, once a body is moving it is easier and easier to keep it moving.
It's like driving a car. At first, as you press the accelerator, you move slowly. The law of physics takes over and the car moves easier and easier with less pressure on the accelerator.
Look at your goals you have written down. You have done that, right? Just take one of them and decide to take action on it NOW! Ignore the fact that you haven't planned out the finest detail, ignore the number of times your negative self tells you it cannot happen... Just DO IT! Choose a reward you will give yourself when the goal is achieved. Take action and you will quickly learn that the only way to achieve a goal is to take action in the first place.
"Successful people will always find a way....everyone else will find an excuse." Leo Aguilar
Together in Success,
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