Take Three Specific Actions

Take Three Specific Actions

Make it a life long habit to do at least three things every day (no matter how small each is) to move you forward. List them in your diary or day planner. On this list group simple actions or goals for the day that when completed will move you closer to your quest.

It might be sending out a thank you letter, thereby building a relationship. It might be making a phone call to a specific client either to sell something or to develop rapport. It might be to design an ad, write two pages of a new book, or call the library to get information. The tasks change everyday. The only things that shouldn’t change is your resolve to accomplish at least three of them each and every day. Every one of them is positive. Every one of them should make you feel good for having done it and it will make you feel good as well. Every one of them can be done in a relatively short amount of time. That means every week you should cross at least 21 items off a to-do list. Try crossing them off with a red pen, it’s a powerful colour, and a powerful feeling. And if for any reason, you do not get these three items done, then the items not completed get added on to the next days total.

Winston Churchill once said, “There are plenty of good ideas if only they can be backed with the power of action.” Although goals and strategies are very important, the greatest plans in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans without action.

No matter where you stand in your business, career or life (and no matter what challenges you now face) when you make the conscious decision to become a person of action (rather than being indecisive) you instantly turn the tide of your life in your favour. Often, if you are mentally ready for action, opportunities will present themselves in the most unusual ways, and you will find yourself involved in new and interesting endeavours. Action has a way of increasing opportunity, while procrastination and inaction always inhibit success.

As Benjamin Disraeli said, “Action does not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
** This has been brought to you by Steve Kay, Master Business Coach with ActionCoach. A leader in the iLearningGlobal community. Thanks Steven!

James Radina
James@BrianTracy.com