How Taking Action can help you achieve an impactful life? 5 Powerful life skills from Christonanda
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Beginners Guide to Taking Action
Have you ever stubbed your own toe? Recently, A student while in Class did exactly that. He moved his office chair over his own feet. Gosh! That was so painful. He immediately tried to ease the pain.
Not working on our Personal Projects and dream should feel the same, Like stubbing our own toe. Taking action for some projects should be immediate and with intent. Just like my student was hurt, we too must feel the pain of not doing what we are meant to do.
The pain of our dreams not becoming a reality. Pain can force us to get to work.
Most of us have awesome dreams, worthy goals and reasonable projects. Why don't we take action? What is stopping us?
The answer is quite obvious to each of us. We must sometimes stop and reflect. Then we may have the answers.
Achieving the important goals of Life
Take action and dominate your life
I always thought sharing ideas with people was something to avoid. But now I realise that ideas are in plenty.
Executing the ideas and putting them into action is what matters. When we execute ideas, we make plans.
Some of these plans take us ahead and succeed, while others teach us lessons. the problem is that people rarely think of executing ideas.
On my own personal journey, it took me quite a while to start working on my idea of starting this blog.
After a lot of prodding and pushing from people I got to work. It's been an exciting journey. It has taught me a lot.
Let me ask you a question, What stops you from starting out? Are you looking for all the resources? Do you want to begin when situations are perfect? Is it reasonable to think like this?
These are questions we need to ponder upon. But think about it, Not working on a good idea is to kill it before it bears fruit. Nothing wrong or right about it, But only potentially missed opportunities.
Inaction is also a decision in itself. Think about good ideas, plan them and shoot them down when needed. May the best idea become a reality!
Essential Steps to taking Actions now
1) Start the day on the right note
2) You are responsible for your own actions
Blaming others may be right in certain circumstances, but in all situations, you are responsible for your actions.
Learn to take control of the choices you make whether by action or inaction. Inaction is also a choice.
Bringing clarity to the purpose behind your actions can come by tying it to some goal you want to achieve.
3) Starting out small
I have noticed it with a lot of people, they start out in a big way and when they face difficulties they just give up. I noticed the same in myself too.
Starting out small is not bad, you get to test out and sample your big project. You can begin by introducing new habits each week. It can be really transformative.
If you lapsed into an old routine, it's no problem ...Start a new habit and continue once more.
4) Inaction is an action
It's an act not to deal with situations. You may say, Chris, There are some things difficult to deal with. Yes, there are difficult problems, but there is nothing stopping you from trying out new and various solutions.
Give various ideas a Test drive, you could do them as a thought experiment or just dedicate a few hours to try something with potential life-changing power.
5) Focus and focus some more
I think the modern term would be accountability partners. It does not need to be a group of people. But it depends on the scale of your project.
Be accountable to your goals and future self along with your band of supporters.
7) Don't work when you are partying
8) Become a Problem Solver
Guess what is the one fact about Science and Social Studies that motivates me. The fact that as humans our strength lies in problem-solving.
We dealt with nature by mastering what we learnt from it. We dreamed of achieving happiness and personal contentment by working on goals and our dreams.
We are problem solvers and it is a fact. We can be a bad or good problem solvers, we are problem solvers nonetheless.
9) People's opinions matter and they don't
I will not lie to you and tell you that people's opinions won't affect you. It may, but the choice is yours. I don't see how it makes a difference.
You pay your taxes and deal with your own problems. Limiting people's bad influence in life is okay.
If we become people-pleasers, when do we don't please ourselves and we sacrifice our lives for someone else's opinions. What are the payoffs and even if you think there are some payoffs maybe they only are in your own head?
Is it worth sacrificing your goals on the altar of someone's opinion?
10) Be Enthusiastic
11) Make the process, Fun
Why shouldn't it be Fun? Just because the journey can be difficult. It does not mean it should not be fun.
Try adding some fun to the process. Read and Research ways to improve the process of achieving your goals.
Plan it out and schedule fun activities. So for example, if you are Dieting. How can you add activities or events that can add fun to the process of dieting? If you are blogging what are the fun elements in blogging.
You don't need to make it a task of martyrdom although it does involve some self-sacrifice. Don't kill all the fun from the process.
12) Celebrate your milestones
Expressing joy and exhilaration in achieving something is Human. Celebrating can border on chest-thumping which may be good but it may rob you of your power and will to continue on the journey.
It may fool you into thinking that you arrived and it may rob you of the enthusiasm to continue. You deserve to achieve your goals and not an illusion of it.
In Conclusion
I think we all deserve to achieve all the good and lovely dreams we have. Except for a few people who don't deserve their dreams to become a reality (Anti Social Elements).
As Humans, we all have dreams and goals we want to achieve. We plan and that is good, But adding some action to it can be explosive.
It may get your success or the much-needed feedback to improve. Claim your dreams and work on them.
I hope this blog was able to get you working on your goals. See you in the next post, Share and Comment on something about your dreams in the comment section.
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