Success Coaching Tip - Action, Why So Few Take It Helps to Explain the Inability to Master Success
By Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Why do so few people take action? Each year millions of people think about doing this or doing that (New Year Eve's Resolutions, anyone?), but fail to do anything. Their goal to master success is never realized.
Theodore Roosevelt stated:
‘In any moment of decision, the BEST THING you can do is the RIGHT THING; the next best thing is the WRONG THING; and the worst thing you can do is NOTHING’.
As I always tell my clients and those when I speak, indecision is a decision to take action.
Possibly, the answer is a lack of an action plan or the inability to consistently set and achieve goals. For many it is the fear of the thought of taking action becomes the fear of success. FEAR for those most often than not is False Evidence Appearing Real.
How often do you fear something, but upon later introspection discover that your fear was unfounded? This fear may be because of something that happened as a child. Or the fear might because of two totally unrelated events happened together and initiated a fear inside of you.
Another potential answer is the people truly are happy where they are. Even if they think they are unhappy because they are not where they want to be, they are actually happy and satisfied where they are. For if they were not, they would take action. This happiness has translated into complacency.
Have you ever tried to take action and have someone tell you it was a bad idea? Most people look at change as negative because they have been negatively conditioned to change from their early childhood.
After observing a lot of people, I truly believe that most people enjoy living in the land that I call misery. Living here becomes a safety net. To venture forth across the Seas of Change and Uncertainty is frightening because of all the waves of Fear.
Yet for those brave and risk taking individuals who cross these seas, they arrive to the Land of Opportunity and Success. Now they continue with their action plan to that allows them to master success.
Action is necessary if anyone wants to improve or achieve where they are now to what they want from live. By not taking action you are assured of two things: staying where you are and happy with being miserable.
