“One day or day one. You decide.” ― Anonymous
Sometimes the “busy work” you do of planning or organizing your goals may seem like progress. Or the constant dreaming and analyzing of your ideas may seem justified and necessary. But no matter how much envisioning, planning, organizing or analyzing you do, nothing will change until you take action! It sounds simple and you know it to be true, so what holds you back from doing it?
Like so many other people, the reason you don’t take action has to do with the fear of failure. Fear is a very powerful emotion and it’s one that can stop you in your tracks. It might be because the fear you have of failing is more powerful than the satisfaction of success. Or you may even be afraid of success itself, because of the responsibilities or pressure that may come with it.
Nothing Happens Until You Take Action
The fear of change and uncertainty can also be a factor. Sometimes you mask those fears in never ending planning and overthinking, causing you to never take the first step. The thing for you to realize is that failure is a part of success. There can not be success in anything without failure. So, as you can imagine, failure will be a part of the learning process on the road to financial success too.
The only way to overcome that fear is for you to accept it as part of the process. That’s where it starts. Once you start, you can then learn from mistakes, make corrections and keep moving forward. The success from the actions you take will allow you to overcome your fear. That’s how real action is taken for progress to be made. But you have to start for anything to happen.
“It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.”
― Shannon L. Alder
Getting the motivation to start working toward your goals isn’t something that mysteriously builds up inside of you until you all of a sudden take action! Despite what many people might think, it doesn’t take motivation to take action, it’s actually the other way around! Motivation comes from taking action and once you’re motivated by your actions, you prime yourself to take more action.
It’s like a continuous loop, where one feeds into the other and then feeds back into itself. A simple example from my own experience is when I don’t feel motivated to engage in my daily workout. What I’ll find is that by making the decision to take action by getting myself into the gym, once I get started, I end up putting in more effort than I felt I was wanting to prior to walking in.
Taking action is what gets you motivated, and discipline is what gets you to take the necessary action. The things that motivate you by taking action are the things you feel good about when you achieve your goals, whether it’s praise, recognition, fame, money, etc. Discipline is the habit or practice of doing what you know you should do even when you don’t want to do it.
Developing a routine that lines up with what you need to achieve your goals is a good way to instill discipline. So, find whatever the “thing” is that motivates you and become disciplined to take the necessary actions for you to achieve your financial goals. And remember, your discipline will get you started, your actions will give you results and your motivation will keep you going.
“Wishing is nice but doing is better. Take action.” ― Akiroq Brost
When you think about your plans and dream of your future, no matter how much envisioning, planning, organizing or analyzing you do, nothing can happen without action! Action is the catalyst for all of your desires. Taking action is the one most important thing that separates the highly successful people from everyone else. The amount and type of action will determine your success.
Taking action is what causes life changes to take place and without it nothing happens. It’s not always easy to take those steps, sometimes you have to push past your comfort zone or do it in fear. Fear is a very powerful emotion, even when it comes to change, uncertainty and failure. Even the thought of success can be frightening because of the responsibility and pressure that comes with it.
It’s those different fears that are often the reason you don’t take the necessary actions toward your goals. The things to keep in mind to help you to take that first step is, why you want to reach your goal, how it will feel to accomplish your goal and the way accomplishing your goal will improve your situation. What you’ll find is that taking those first steps will allow you to overcome your fears.
Asking yourself those questions will uncover your motivation. Then develop the discipline to take those first steps for overcoming your fears. The actions you take will feed into your motivation which will create more action. Understand that just knowing what, why and how is not enough, you must do. So, get disciplined, find what motivates you to want to become financially free and DO IT!
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