“if [more] information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs”
--Derek Sivers
We know objectively what we need to do to be successful. If you want to get in shape. Eat healthy and exercise. If you want a promotion, work hard. If you want to date that girl/guy, ask them out. We all know what we need to do and yet so few of us actual do it. Why is that?
It’s hard? Of course it is hard! If it were easy everybody would do it. The difference between the successful few and the unsuccessful many is action. The successful people take action in their life. It is not access to information (I am talking about the rule, not the exceptions). As we just reviewed, we all know what we need to do.
Stephen Covey dedicated one of his seven habits to this. Be proactive, not reactive. Don’t wait for something great to happen in your life, make it happen. Don’t wait for that perfect fitness plan to be discovered before you get in shape. Go to the gym, right now.
Kyle Eschroeder wrote an entire book on it. Action is the key differentiation in life. If you want to be successful and have what you want, start doing and stop talking. Judge a tree by the fruit it bears, not the fruit that it talks about.
Decide, right now, what it is you truly want in life. Not just what you think you want, but what you really want to want. What is one action that you could take, today, to help move you closer to that goal? Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Don’t wait for that perfect timing because it doesn’t exist. Get started where you are with what you have. Trust me, the rest will fall in place.
Always Think, Never Settle
