The only reason you haven’t started taking action yet is that you’re in analysis paralysis or afraid of what other people will think.
When you continue to analyze each possible outcome it stops you in your tracks. It’s normal to think things through till the end but when you stay in thinking mode you never take action. It’s okay to fail, you’ll get better anyway.
Here are a few strategies to help you stop over-thinking & start doing:
1) Fail Forward
You have to realize that failures and setbacks are apart of the process to improving anything. Failure can be painful because we want to get things right the first time but that’s not how we learn.
We learn from the mistakes that we make if we decide not to make that mistake again. Some people can make the same mistake over and over again and still not learn from their actions.
Learn from your mistakes and setbacks because that’s how you grow the most… fail forward, never give up. Anything worthwhile takes time, patience, discipline, consistency, and accountability.
Are you ready to make sacrifices towards a greater future?
2) Adopt The Growth Mindset
When you adopt the growth mindset, you’re accepting the belief that you can grow from anything and learn anything you dedicate your mind too. The most successful people in the world have embraced this mindset in their daily lives.
The ability to ask yourself the right questions in the face of an obstacle comes from how high your self-awareness is. You just need to ask yourself one question when you face a setback: How can I grow from here?
The better you get at asking yourself this question in any difficult situation, the easier it will be to find solutions to the challenges that arise on your path. In every adversity there is a seed of opportunity for growth…you just have to find it.
3) Use Death As Motivation
If you get to the end of your life and you haven’t experienced anything that you dreamed of experiencing, how do you think you’re going to feel? You’re going to be full of regret and resentment at yourself because you could’ve done it all.
After my mom passed away from cancer back in 2013, I realized that life is short and tomorrow isn’t promised for anybody. How we spend our time and energy everyday determines the future we will experience.
Do you want to spend your valuable time and energy in constant over-thinking? The most important thing to remember is that you don’t get a refund on your time and energy.
The time you’ve spent on negative thoughts, emotions, and people can never be returned to you. Use your time wisely and take massive action towards living your best life. The longer you wait, the less time you’ll have to make progress.
4) Learn from Action-Takers
There are countless success stories from CEO’s, entrepreneurs, and successful individuals who have become highly successful because they decided to take action on their goals and desires.
You need to start feeding your mind with their stories, strategies, and habits because they’ll tell you exactly how they overcame self-doubt and achieved success & how you can too.
You can do this by reading their books, listening to success podcasts, reading educational articles, and watching or listening to successful people sharing their story on YouTube. This will help you activate your inner warrior and inspire you to take action like it did for me.
Listen to enough GaryVee, Eric Thomas, Tony Robbins and you’ll take action. Use the inspiration and motivation you get from listening to successful people to help fuel your ambition…don’t just keep listening to them getting hyped without taking action. Action unlocks the door to success.
5) Know Your Outcome & Why You Want It
The most important part in goal achievement is being clear about the result you’re looking for. The more clear you are about the end result, the more motivated you become to achieve it. But you must take it a step further.
Why do you want to achieve your specific goal & Who will it impact? By getting clear on why you want to achieve your goal, the more driven you’ll be. Be very specific about the why.
For example, if your goal is to make more money then go into detail about how you want to spend that money and how it’s going to make you feel emotionally. To crystalize your goals write them down to make them real.
Try to embody the feeling of you already achieving your goal by visualizing yourself achieving it…this will motivate you to take action in that direction.
6) Ignore The Opinions Of The World
No matter what you do in this world, someone will have an opinion about it. Just remember that everyone is entitled to have their own opinion and you don’t have to accept someone else’s opinion as your own.
When you start doing things for yourself there is always someone that has something to say about it. Let them have their opinions because imposing opinions on other people is a sign of fear.
If you continue to let the world tell you who you should be and how you should live your life, then eventually you’ll be living a life that isn’t your own. You’ll think, act, and behave in accordance with how society expects you too.
Let people have their opinions and don’t let them interfere with how you live your life, especially if those opinions are negative and pulling you down. The risk-takers and dreams are the people who have made this world a better place.
I’ll end the article with one of my favorite quotes:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw
– raulinspires