Take Action In Your Life

Brilliant video! Who has analysis paralysis and needs to take action?

Success Only Comes By Taking Action

Success comes by taking action and that means immediate action, daily action, weekly action, monthly action and so forth. The importance of taking action can not be stressed enough if you are to succeed in achieving your goals.

Just as blood is necessary to keep you alive, action is just as necessary for success in achieving your goals. You can not sit and plan till its perfect because it will never be a perfect time and a perfect plan in place, there is always unforseen things you will have to adjust to.

Remember you do not have to get it right, you just have to get it going and once you get it going you can make the necessary adjustments.

Even if you do something wrong you have learned something from the action you took, you gain experienced that will be valuable again to you in the future.

Only by taking action can you learn what will work and what will not. Sure someone can give you advice on what will work and what will not but each situation is different and sometimes what worked for some may not work for others and vice versa.

While it is good to put together a plan of action it is not good to spend too much time on it. Get the basics of what you will need to get going then start working the plan.

When you are taking action things will start to come together and you will see what else needs to be done and you can then make adjustments.

No plan is going to work perfectly from beginning to end so why should you bother trying to plan it perfectly from beginning to end. That is going to be a complete waste of time. You just have to get it going.

Start with what you have and start taking action, you will not dream your way to success you have to take some form of action each and every day even, if the results are not what you expected they are still better than not having any results at all from not taking action.

While you may have fears and doubts those same fears and doubts soon disappear when you start taking action because you will be learning and learning how to do something erases fear and doubts and learning builds confidence.

The quickest way to learn what works and what does not work is taking action and when you take action you start seeing results from those action steps you took. If they are working you keep doing what you are doing, if you are not seeing the results you want then make corrections and try again.

While a plan of action is important it is even more important to take action each day. All the planning you do in the world will not get the job done. Only by taking action can you achieve what it is that you wish to achieve.

Start taking action and you will be amazed at what you can do and soon you will start seeing the results of your hard work and the success you deserve.

By Delton Doucet

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How to Push Yourself Out of Your Comfort Zone

Have you heard the saying, “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there”? It can be difficult to shake the anxiety that often goes with doing things we’re not used to or comfortable with, precisely because we have either little or poor experience with whatever is outside our comfort zone.

However, learning to push those boundaries for yourself is helpful for advancing and succeeding both in your career and your personal life. If you don’t know how to begin taking healthy steps to leave your comfort zone, here are some tips on things you can do that will encourage you to take risks and learn to embrace uncertainty.

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Reach Your Dreams

Got a Dream?

Achieving certain dreams often requires FAR LESS WORK than achieving other, seemingly easier goals. Why is that so?

Because it is much, much harder to work for to achieve a dream we don't passionately desire. But when you manage to get yourself focused on what is naturally a passionate interest, your work becomes play.

Is Your Dream a Good Fit?

Hopefully you have invested some thought clarifying your dream ... and you know exactly what you want. If that is the case. why not take a few minutes to ask yourself an important question --- am I pursuing the right dream and goal for ME?

Here is why that is so important: You will never really achieve your true potential as long as you pour your energy into something that does not really fit your true passions and interests! Does that seem too simple?

Think about it. It is often very easy to automatically adopt someone elses goal. We were trained to do that very thing as children.

Ninty-nine percent of us were fully expected to achieve the goals our parents and educational system set out for us. Some of us gave in and tried to comply. Some of us rebelled and learned to fail instead. And some of us felt somehow inadequate because we did not have the natural interest and/or aptitude to do what we were expected to do.

If you find you never seem to achieve your goals, you may be setting goals you don't really desire or believe in for yourself.

This is never going to lead to success. What leads to is one false start after another... and a tendency to want to quit after the first bump in the road. This is a major dead-end, and will do nothing but gradually erode your self confidence.

PURSUE AN APPROPRIATE DREAM

Three things will happen if you make the effort to refocus yourself around a dream and supporting goal that is more in keeping with your natural talents and passions:

• First, you will be happier, less stressed, and far more productive.
• Second, you will be more likely to hang in when you hit those jarring bumps in the road.
• Third, there is a higher probability you will achieve a level of excellence at what you're doing. This increases your value thereby increasing your potential for increased return on your efforts.

Put your goal to the test. Does it truly "measure up" to your innermost desires? Now ... ask yourself this question: What do you have to do NOW to get what you want?

By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler

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Think and Grow Rich Audio Book by Napoleon Hill

This may take some time to listen to but will be worth every minute of your time and will help you massively on your personal development journey. Has anyone already read/listened to this book and what is your feedback or the most useful information you took from this book?

A Theory of Personal Development

There are many ideas surrounding personal development, one of which is detailed below - Abraham Maslow's process of Self Actualisation.

Self Actualisation

Maslow (1970) suggests that all individuals have an in-built need for personal development which occurs through the process called self-actualisation.

The extent to which people are able to develop depends on certain needs being met and these needs form a hierarchy.  Only when one level of need is satisfied can a higher one be developed.  As change occurs throughout life, however, the level of need motivating someone’s behaviour at any one time will also change.

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• At the bottom of the hierarchy are the basic physiological needs for food, drink, sex and sleep, i.e., the basics for survival. 
• Second are the needs for safety and security in both the physical and economic sense. 
• Thirdly, progression can be made to satisfying the need for love and belonging. 
• The fourth level refers to meeting the need for self-esteem and self-worth.  This is the level most closely related to ‘self-empowerment’. 
• The fifth level relates to the need to understand.This level includes more abstract ideas such as curiosity and the search for meaning or purpose and a deeper understanding. 
• The sixth relates to aesthetic needs of beauty, symmetry and order.  At the top of Maslow’s hierarchy, is the need for self-actualisation. 

Maslow (1970, p.383) says that all individuals have the need to see themselves as competent and autonomous, also that every person has limitless room for growth. 

Self-actualisation refers to the desire that everybody has ‘to become everything that they are capable of becoming’.  In other words, it refers to self-fulfilment and the need to reach full potential as a unique human being.

For Maslow, the path to self-actualisation involves being in touch with your feelings, experiencing life fully and with total concentration.

Maslow, A. H. (1970), Motivation and Personality, (2nd Edition), Harper & Row, New York.

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Tony Robbins motivation -TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE

Wise words from a very wise guy! Has anyone seen Tony Robbins live?