The importance of action

The only thing that pushes us further is action. Action, action and one more time action. So, today I’ll tell you how it is important to perform something.

Don’t stick in stage of planning
You can plan how you’ll accomplish your business idea many days. You can write, paint, draw diagrams, which looks like pieces of art. But the only thing which gets you closer to your goal is performing an action. Only act gives us some tangible result.

It’s better to start act than to be in a planning phase. Why? Firstly, you hardly can create a perfect plan. There always happens to be some inaccuracies and errors. Sometimes unexpected things happen and change your life and, of course, your schemes. However, you can’t take back the time you’ve spend planning. Secondly, the faster you start to perform concrete steps towards your goal, the faster you get feedback. Suddenly you’ll see that one thing or another must be done in different way or, that some things cannot be accomplished at all. The gained experience helps to upgrade plan and its execution.

Of course, I don’t deny benefit, which is provided by having a step by step plan and prioritization. But we can reach our goals only through performing actions. Actually, performing an action it the last thing in hierarchy of success, which comes after things like attitude, goals, strategies and other things. But only action gives as tangible result.

Experiment
If you think that you can become a person which perfectly masters his time or always sets and reaches goals by just reading a book or article, then I have bad news for you – life doesn’t work like that. The way to success is paved by mistakes and failures, because it makes us stronger and smarter. Try out things about which you’ve read and adjust them. One size doesn’t fit all. Also, information which isn’t used doesn’t provide any benefits, so why to bother gathering it? And the last thing about not using your gained knowledge is that the less you use it the higher probability to forget.

Now, let’s imagine, that a man created a manual how to achieve success. You’ve read it and applied, and now you’re a successful person. How would feel knowing that your success belongs to somebody else? That actually, you’ve achieved nothing? It would look like repeating brainless steps – no befit or fun. The worst thing is that there would be no failures, difficult situations and others things, which are necessary for personal development and further success.

You don’t need the newest mobile phone
Often people say or think that if they had a better program, faster internet, the newest mobile phone, when they would be more productive and more successful. And while they don’t have it, they can’t even take garbage out, because they don’t have an appliance, which would remind them, that they need to do it. Also, they would like to have a device, which wouldn’t let them to forget to make a reminder for taking garbage out ;) But let’s take a close look to an article “Five best note taking tools” from a popular site lifehacker.com. The second place belongs to paper and a pen. The readers of the website are more productive and educated than an average person, but still insists that the simplest tool is the best.

So, the need for the newest technology is just another way for procrastination. Paper and a pen is all you need to get started. I agree that a smart phone could help you to remember things and to plan work day more effectively. However, it’s not a reason to postpone performing actions.

Conclusion
Despite the fact, that action takes the last place in hierarchy of success after things like attitude, problems approaching method, goals, strategy and other, but only it gives us concrete result, which takes us nearer to success. That’s why don’t stuck doing all other things, but performing actions. Without them even the perfect plan or the best attitude wouldn’t get you closer to success even by an eyelash.

September 26, 2009 · Povilas Panavas · No Comments
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