To see changes in your life, you have to take action. Reading books, attending classes, workshops and seminars, and listening to audios and watching videos about new skill you want to learn, will not bring any changes in your life until you apply what you learn repeatedly and review the results for optimal performance. Your subconscious mind controls your life through the process of manifestation that says, your thoughts lead to your feelings, your feelings lead to your actions and your actions lead to your results. So, if you don’t take any action about what you learn, your results will never change.
Below are seven basic principles of Taking Action that will help you make a difference in your life. They come from a book called, “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson and are as follows:
- Show Up;
- Be Consistent;
- Have a Positive Attitude;
- Commitment;
- Faith and Burning Desire;
- Be Willing to Pay the Price, and;
- Integrity.
Let’s go through each principle and get a clear understanding.
Below are seven basic principles of Taking Action that will help you make a difference in your life. They come from a book called, “The Slight Edge” by Jeff Olson and are as follows:
- Show Up;
- Be Consistent;
- Have a Positive Attitude;
- Commitment;
- Faith and Burning Desire;
- Be Willing to Pay the Price, and;
- Integrity.
Let’s go through each principle and get a clear understanding.
1. SHOW UP
Showing up means doing or attending to what you need to do, to get to where you want to be in life. 80% of success is showing up. You have already won half the battle if you commit to showing up, doing what you need to do.
Results you want in your life will show up when you do. You will experience life happenings everyday, and they may stop you from being committed to what you need to do. Always remember what you want to achieve and let it be the motivation for showing up everyday.
Learn to develop a habit of working on your daily goals that will lead you to your Ultimate Lifestyle. Know that failure to showing up everyday, will result in no changes in your life. So, do the work even when you don’t feel like showing up. Your desired results do not depend on how you feel but on what you do.
2. BE CONSISTENT
Consistency is the difference between success and failure. To accomplish anything great, you need a consistent effort over long periods of time. Not showing up consistently will not bring desired results in what you want to achieve. Showing up consistently is where the magic happens.
Consistency is the key to success. Consistency leads to habits. Habits form the actions we take every day. Action leads to success. As Anthony Robbins said : “It’s not what we do once in a while that shape our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”
Being casual about what you want to achieve, or taking action when you only feel like taking action, will never bring success in your life. Success is only reserved for those who show up consistently, even on dark days.
Consistency is the difference between success and failure. To accomplish anything great, you need a consistent effort over long periods of time. Not showing up consistently will not bring desired results in what you want to achieve. Showing up consistently is where the magic happens.
Consistency is the key to success. Consistency leads to habits. Habits form the actions we take every day. Action leads to success. As Anthony Robbins said : “It’s not what we do once in a while that shape our lives. It’s what we do consistently.”
Being casual about what you want to achieve, or taking action when you only feel like taking action, will never bring success in your life. Success is only reserved for those who show up consistently, even on dark days.
3. HAVE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
A positive attitude helps you cope more easily with the daily life happenings. It brings optimism in your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. Not only you need to show up consistently, you also need to do so with positive attitude. Positive attitude leads to success and happiness.
Maintaining a positive attitude is critical when you want to achieve anything, or just to improve the quality of your life. Approach all your daily activities with positive attitude for fast and better results. Being lazy or negative about life will bring nothing but unpleasant life.
In general, having a positive attitude means being optimistic about situations, interactions, and yourself. People with positive attitude are able to remain hopeful and see the best even in difficult situations.
4. COMMITMENT
Commitment is a promise or firm decision to do something. It is a willingness to give your time and energy to an activity you believe in. Being committed to showing up consistently with a good attitude for a long period of time, will yield desired results.
Successful people are clear about what they want and are committed to creating success in their lives. Being committed means:
Commitment is a promise or firm decision to do something. It is a willingness to give your time and energy to an activity you believe in. Being committed to showing up consistently with a good attitude for a long period of time, will yield desired results.
Successful people are clear about what they want and are committed to creating success in their lives. Being committed means:
- devoting yourself unreservedly;
- holding absolutely nothing back;
- giving 100% of everything you’ve got;
- being willing to do whatever it takes, as long as it legal, ethical and morally acceptable;
- having no excuses, no buts, no maybes and failure is not an option;
- “I’ll be successful or will die trying”.
Until you give all of yourself to whatever you want to achieve in your life, you will never be successful. So, don’t just want to be successful, be committed to being successful.
5. HAVE FAITH AND BURNING DESIRE
Faith is believing or having complete confidence into something or someone. Desire is what keeps you motivated to consistently do something. Having faith and burning desire in what you want to achieve, will make it easier for you to show up consistently, with a good attitude, over a long period of time. The following statements are taken from the book called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill:
“Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.”
“All achievement, no matter what may be its nature or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.”
“Faith is a state of mind which may be induced by autosuggestion.”
6. BE WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE
There is a price for success and there is a price for failure. Anything worth having is worth working and paying a price for. If you don’t have anything to be successful at, you will be unsuccessful the rest of your life. A price for failure, which is not showing up, inconsistency, negative attitude and lack of commitment, is far worse than a price for success, which is showing up consistently, with a positive attitude over a long period of time.
Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. If you are not willing to pay the price for success, you will pay the price for failure by default.
There is a price for success and there is a price for failure. Anything worth having is worth working and paying a price for. If you don’t have anything to be successful at, you will be unsuccessful the rest of your life. A price for failure, which is not showing up, inconsistency, negative attitude and lack of commitment, is far worse than a price for success, which is showing up consistently, with a positive attitude over a long period of time.
Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. If you are not willing to pay the price for success, you will pay the price for failure by default.
7. INTEGRITY
Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It is the practice of being honest, and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence, to strong moral and ethical principles and values. Being able to do what you said you will do, or practising honesty when no one is watching, is the highest form of integrity you can have. Should dishonesty be detected by others, your credibility will be destroyed, and all you say or do will become suspicious. Having no integrity, can lead to you having doubts within yourself, or seeing no value in showing up or having a positive attitude.
Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It is the practice of being honest, and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence, to strong moral and ethical principles and values. Being able to do what you said you will do, or practising honesty when no one is watching, is the highest form of integrity you can have. Should dishonesty be detected by others, your credibility will be destroyed, and all you say or do will become suspicious. Having no integrity, can lead to you having doubts within yourself, or seeing no value in showing up or having a positive attitude.
These are the seven principles of taking action. Of course, if you just read them and don’t implement them, nothing is going to happen. So, show up consistently with a good attitude over a long period of time. Have faith and a burning desire, be willing to pay the price and have slight edge integrity and discipline to do those things even when no one is looking.
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