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Success is not about grand gestures or momentous occasion, it is about the small seemingly insufficient action you take every single day. It is about forcing yourself to do what needs to be done, even when you do not feel like it. Especially when you do not feel like it.
Why I daily action, so crucial. First and fore most it builds momentum. Daily action does for your life and your goals. It creates an unstoppable force that propels towards success. This kind of momentum does not happen by accident. It comes from forcing yourself to take action, every single day regardless of how you feel.
What if I am tried or dressed or just not in the mood and to that I say well, those are precisely the moment that separate the achievers from a dreams. You will find yourself stuck in a cycle of starts and stops, never gaining the momentum. You need to truly succeed. It is about developing the discipline to act but when you need to it is about doing what is necessary, not what is comfortable.
The most successful people in the world, the innovations, the ladders, the game changers. They do not wait for motivation, they create it through action.
Start by setting clear specific goals, not wishes like, I will be successful. But concrete objectives or persistent pressure it means creating systems and habits that make actin inevitable. They remove the ambiguity that often leads to procrastination, when you know exactly what need to be done. It is harder to make excuses. We are aiming for progress. The key is to start to take that first step, no matter how small it might seem. Schedule these tasks put them in your calendar, treat them with the dame respect and urgency, you at a meeting with your most important client. Because in reality that is exactly what they are their appointments with your future self with the person you are striving to become.
But scheduling alone is not enough you need to create an environment that supports action. This might mean setting up your workspace, the night before, so it is ready for you in the morning.
If might you putting you running shoes by the door, so they are the first thing you see when you wake up. To make it easier to do the right things than to do nothing for failure.
Not every actions you take will lead to immediate success, there will be setbacks. There will be days when despite your best efforts, things go not go as planned. And this is Okay in face. It is more than Okay, it is necessary. Failure is not the opposite of success. It is a crucial part of it. Every setback, every misstep, every failure is actually a learning opportunity. The only real failure is giving up.
As long as you keep taking actions, as long as you keep moving forward, you have not failed, you are just in the process of succeeding. Success is not about making one perfect decision or taking one perfect action. It is about constantly making good decisions and taking positive actions over think of it like compound interest. Just regular investment can grow into future over time. Small consistent actions can transform your life. If you achieve small good consistently, week after week, you will reach you larger goal in less than a year. The same principle applies to any goal, any dream, any appreciation you might have. Study for just 15 minutes each day in a year, you will have devoted over 90 hours to your new skill, these might seen like small actions. It is not the size of the actions that matters, it is the consistency, it is the cumulative effect of those small actions, taken day after day that leads to extraordinary results. Now know that some of you are thinking this all sounds great in theory.
But what about when life gets in the way, what about when I am tired or stressed or overwhelmed and this a valid concern, life has a way of throwing curveballs, when we least expect them , but here is the thing that precisely why developing the habit of forcing yourself to take action is to important. When you are action, a nonnegotiable part of your day, it become your anchor. It became the constant that you can rely on, no matter what chaos is swirling around you, think about it when you are stressed, taking actin toward your goals, can be remind you that your in control.
You are moving forward despite the challenge, when you are tied taking action, can energize you, giving you a sense of accomplishment that no amount of rest, can provide. But let us be real then will be days when you do not feel like doing days when the thought of taking action seems impossible and that is okay on those days. Your jobs is simple to just one thing. Just one small actions toward you goals. It does not matter how small the actions is, what matters is that you do something. Why because it keeps, the habit alive, it keeps you in motions and most importantly remind you that you are stronger that your excuses.
Expecting progress can be powerful motivator but do no stop these, make yourself accountable the world. Share your journey on social media. Start blog documenting your progress. The more you put yourself out there, the more you invested into your own success, the more people you inspire along the way. Your actions do not just impact you, every time you force yourself to take action. Every item push through resistance an go what needs to be done. You are setting an example, you are showing other what is possible. You are becoming a beacon of inspiration for everyone around you, your daily actions, no matter how small they might seem to you, have the power to change lives, the ripple effect of your commitment to action, can spread for beyond your won life, touching people you have never ever met, forcing yourself to take actins day by day. It is not just about becoming the kind of person, who inspires others to achieve them.
Instead of aiming for perfection aiming for progress embraced in perfect action because in perfect actions taken today is infinitely more valuable than a perfect action, never taken. Think about some of the most successful products and series in the world. Did they start out perfect? Absolutely no, they start as right ideas with valuable products but their creator ha the courage to put them out into the world to take action, despite the imperfections. It was very actions that allowed them to get feedback to iterate to improve the perfection, they eventually achieved was not the result of consistent imperfect action.
What imperfect action can you take today? What small step can you take todays toward your goals? Even if it is not quite ready, even if it is not quite perfect, take that step force yourself to move forward, because it is in the moment in the action that you will find the path to your dreams.
Let us talk about fear because lei us face it what holds us back from taking actins is not laziness or lack of motivation, it is fear of failure, fear of success. Fear of the unknown but her is the thing about fear. It is just emoting and like all emotions. It is just emotion and it can be managed. It can be overcome. Fear strive in an action. It grows in the dark corners of your mind, fed by your doubts an insured but when you take action when you force yourself to move forward despite the fear something happens. The fear begins to dissipate why because actions bring clarity it as well as bring reality. It replaces the imagines threats conjured by your fear with real world experiences. Think about it, how m many times have you been afraid to do something, only to find that once you did it. It was not nearly as scary as you did imagined. That is the power of actin in the face of fear. So the next time you feel fear holding you back.
It is action force yourself to take that first step, no matter how small courage will come as a result of your action not as prerequisite for it. Not every action you take will lead to immediate success, there will be setbacks, and there will be failures. When it feels like, all your efforts are in vain, every time you force yourself to take action especially when thing are not going your way, you are building resilience, you are developing the metal tough that will see you through any challenge. Successful people who are taking action despite those setback, they are the one who force themselves to get up one more time then they fall down. They embraced the changes. It will not se them as a obstacles but as opportunity to grow stronger.
