Do you spend all of your free time worrying about how/when you’re going to take that next step in your health, your relationships, and/or your career? Are you trying to figure it out all by yourself? Are you trying to take your life to the next level by using the power of your mind alone?
How is that working for you?
You know and I know… Nothing changes until your behaviour changes. Sure, you might feel better about your life after all of your mental gymnastics, but is anything actually happening in your life from all of these intellectual efforts?
When you take action you can watch your life change before your eyes!
Consider these 5 ideas:
- You have to do something for something to happen. Nothing happens until you act. You can’t wish or visualise your way to a plate of food, a fancy car, the partner of your dreams, or a successful career. Those things might make it easier for you to act, but you must still take action of some kind.
Unless you’re telekinetic, you can’t even make a paperclip move across your desk without taking action, right?
The more you want to accomplish, the bigger the action you’ll need to take.
- It’s not what you CAN do that matters. It’s what you ACTUALLY do that counts. The amount of capability you possess only increases the number of options you have available.
Having options isn’t the same as choosing one and taking action.
- Your beliefs, values, and thoughts influence your behaviour. For example, if you believe that you’re a smart, capable, and successful woman, your behaviour will be different than if you believe that you’re lacking in confidence, incapable, and suffering from imposter syndrome.
Here are some other examples of how our thoughts can influence our behaviour:
Do you believe that failure is fine or to be avoided at all costs?
Do you believe that most people are inherently good or inherently bad?
Do you value safety or adventure?
Do you have positive thoughts about your goals or negative?
None of these thoughts has any actual power in the world, other than that they can alter the choices you make and the actions you take and therefore the reality you experience.
- The law of averages is ultimately on your side. If your dream is to play the piano, you can certainly do it. You simply have to keep trying. A professional pianist might play a certain piece better than you do, but you’re likely to be successful if you keep persevering (and practising!).
When you take action, you get a result. You’re bound to get the result you want if you take action long enough. Eventually, the law of averages will pay off.
When you do nothing, you always fail.
- Action creates potential. When you take action, you can learn from your results. When you take action, things change. New opportunities become available. You might meet a new person that can help you get what you want. When you take the first step, the next step appears.
Things start happening when you start moving. Nothing happens while you’re thinking, worrying, and planning.
Things begin to change when your behaviour changes.
You’ve proven this to yourself thousands of times throughout your life. Your life changed when you started school, went to work, met new colleagues. Your life was different after you made permanent changes to your diet or started a new diet. You can’t just accumulate knowledge, daydream, or make grand plans. You have to DO new things.
When your behaviour changes, your life changes.
How do you want your life to change? What can you DO to make it happen? When will you get started? Why not today?
It’s the first of the month, the start of a new season and I’m excited to announce once again that my all-female coaching group is open! Would you like to take action and join us?
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