Some people at times ask the question whether they really need to take action to succeed in life. Such people believe they can succeed by being lucky or winning a lottery or any such easy way. Interestingly, the people who ask such questions are generally lazy people who are looking for quick ways to become wealthy. Permit us to repeat it that to acquire true wealth, you must take action to succeed. Not just any type of action but calculated and definite actions with the singular focus to succeed as your goal.
The prevailing get-rich-quick mentality has made some people think up of all sorts of bizarre get-rich-quick schemes. Otherwise, how do you explain a situation where someone wants to give another $5,000 and expect $80,000 to $100,000 returns within two weeks! Or someone who puts in $7,000 into an affiliate programme he does not really understand or knows next to nothing about just because he is promised a monthly return of $3,500 for a year! These are life situations some of our students have told us they have undertaken in their bid to make quick money without being willing and ready to take genuine actions that will guarantee true success.
We just returned to our base after being away for 9 days attending a boot camp training in a city about 600 kilometres away from our home. Of course you can imagine the discomfort of being away from your home for 9 days and having to put up with somebody or in a hotel for that length of time in a city much bigger and busier than yours. But despite the discomfort, it was interesting to note that among the attendees (most of who also went through one form of discomfort or the other) four broad categories of people emerged as participants.
- Those that didn’t understand or make any head way with most of what was taught.
- Those that appeared to have understood but had no idea how to go to the next level to actually take action to succeed with what they had learnt.
- Those that understood but would definitely not take action to succeed because what they had learnt may require extra effort and sacrifice to accomplish.
- Those that understood and know precisely what actions to take to succeed with the information they had been stuffed with.
So, despite all the hassle, expenses and discomfort involved to be at the boot camp, the foregoing shows that at the end of the training, not all the attendees were ready to move to the next level where they would have to go beyond theory and actually take action to succeed. Pause a moment and ask yourself where you would fall into were you at that training. We suspect that you may quickly say you would be in the group of those ready to take action. If so, congrats because that is the beginning of the race!
The truth however, is that for you to actually move to the level where you are ready to take action to succeed in life, you must be willing and ready to invest in your self first. How do you do this? The first step is as described above i.e. acquiring requisite knowledge through attending seminars and trainings relevant to your niche. Thereafter, you must take the next step which is to conduct further research on the issues you want to further investigate. A simple way of researching topics is by using Google and Yahoo search engines on the internet. This is the taking action part because you can never be taught all you need to know in one training session. There is therefore the need to get thoroughly grounded on the subject of your interest if you want to achieve real success and not mere mediocrity. Remember that ignorance is a big disease that will only result in you making avoidable mistakes.
Again, if you truly desire to succeed in life, you should first choose one thing, focus on it and make a great success out of it. Focus on something that you like doing and make the most of it. It is only when you have successfully mastered your chosen area that you should move to the next area of interest to you and attempt making the same or a better success of it. Remember that it never pays to be ‘Jack of all trades and master of none’.
To begin to achieve success on a daily basis, it is recommended that you draw up a daily Take Action To Succeed list that outlines the activities you need to follow each day. After drawing up the list, ensure you follow them. You cannot be said to be taking action if you can’t discipline yourself enough to follow your own list! We have employed this method and noticed that adhering to it greatly enables us achieve much more of our daily goals.
Do you have a mentor? Why did you choose that particular person as a mentor? What successful actions do you see him/her do? You will only succeed when you emulate him/her by actually taking action with success as your goal.
Success requires that you persist in taking action. Do not be afraid of making mistakes because as a renowned writer said a life spent making mistakes is better than one spent doing nothing.
Finally, always remember that the only thing that guarantees success is taking action on what you know and not merely knowing what you know. So, begin to take action to succeed in life today and you will truly succeed.
We remain deeply committed to your success.
ChrisVidal
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