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Business Success
Success - Why Taking Action Achieves Results!
In fact, business success is contingent on a simple
truth, that is Taking Action is a secret to success!
Action does not always require thinking. Actually,
thinking often hinders action and learning. Hinders
learning? That flies in the face of most of what we
know, doesn't it? As children we were often reproached
when we made mistakes: "You just weren't thinking! Don't
you ever think about what you're doing?"
Then there's the most successful personal development
book of all time telling us to do what? ...That's right,
"Think and Grow Rich". True, it is a fantastic book and
a must read for success minded people. But many of us
get so tangled in thoughts that we can't get out of our
"heads" and take the action required for success.
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Socrates, one of the greatest "thinkers" of all time,
said, "Action equals knowledge." Taking action -
that is how you achieve results. Take playing the
piano for instance. We could think about playing the
piano but we will never become better until we start
pecking away at the keys. If you were to ask an
accomplished pianist to think about what they are
playing in the middle of a rapturous concert, the music
would probably fall apart into a series of painfully
disconnected notes.
Same is true with typing. Ask a person who
flawlessly types over 70 words a minute to think about
the key strokes, and you could probably watch the
mistakes pile up. Thinking hinders execution. Thinking
can hinder success. The fact of the matter is we can
intellectualize all we want, but until we take action we
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Then there’s martial arts!
A mantra in the martial arts says "Ready, Fire, Aim".
Simply put, this means take action and correct that
action as you go. It is quite probable that many
businesses never get out of the starting gate because of
over-thinking and over analyzing. Most people want all
their ducks to be lined up in a row before they begin.
This will never happen. The time will never be perfect.
The key is to get started and then "keep on keeping on."
In the martial arts, students practice moves over and
over and over again. They train their bodies to
transcend thought and take action in the moment. Imagine
a trained martial artist getting attacked on the street
thinking, "Hmm, okay I'm being attacked. Should I turn
my body this way or should it be the other way? Okay,
now I have to trap the assailments arms, tighten my
fists, pull back, and strike." Of course this is not
what happens in the martial arts. The key teaching in
the martial arts is to ACT. NOW! ...In spite of the
mind's tenancy to analyze the situation.
The worst kind of thinking is fear of failure.
The "What if" disease. "What if I fail? What if people
laugh at me? What if I lose all my money? What if, what
if, what if? Fear is paralyzing. It stops the movement
necessary for success. Fear weakens our resolve,
cripples our creativity, and ultimately stagnates our
successes.
Conversely, movement overcomes fear.
When struck by fear, move. Do something! So, don't wait
to explore your entrepreneurial spirit; start
taking action now. When those pesky thoughts creep
up, and they will, scare them away with the mantra,
"Don't think, don't think, don't think, don't think..."
and watch your dreams and goals cascade toward you.
What is the bottom line? "Don't think and grow rich" –
“Taking Action is a secret to success!”
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