You do something about it! You get up and take action towards your goals. I'll admit there are times when a goal seems so big that it's hard to know where to start…or when life has become so overwhelming that you just want to sit on the couch because it's easier than trying to figure out what to do. But when those times happen, the best thing you can do is to not overthink things.
Just make a quick decision of what to do — and then do it! Your intuition will be at its peak if you don't overanalyze. Once you start tackling something, it becomes more manageable and it's easier to know what the next action is to take. Let these affirmations help you take action that really matters.
Pick your favorites or use them as inspiration for creating your own affirmations. What action can you take today that will move you towards manifesting your intentions?
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Can you just ask and forget about it, never taking any action at all? What kind of action should you take? You need to take action and move towards your desire. Get clear on what you specifically want to create, then do something about it. Affirmations to Help You with Taking Action Let these affirmations help you take action that really matters. I intend to take joyful action towards my dreams. I easily make the right decisions about what action I need to take.
I love taking action. I eagerly take steps towards the glorious life I deserve. I allow divine guidance and inspiration to flow through me as I move closer to my goals with each passing day. I see myself in utter alignment with the right actions that will propel me towards manifesting my desires. I take action from a place of stillness and serenity. I intend that I know what actions will manifest my desires with magical ease and perfect joy. Every action I take leads me towards magnificent success.
Each step was an action providing a new viewpoint. If you stood still and thought about your predicament you would have died. It was only by taking step after step that saved your life. Our ability to predict the future is pretty much zero. No matter how many times scientists prove this to us, we refuse to believe them. The rational flaneur is someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision at every step to revise his schedule, so he can imbibe things based on new information , what Nero was trying to practice in his travels, often guided by his sense of smell.
The flaneur is not a prisoner of a plan. Tourism, actual or figurative, is imbued with the teleological illusion; it assumes completeness of cision and gets one locked into a hard-to-revise program, while the flaneur continuously — and, what is crucial, rationally — modifies his targets as he acquires information.
How much will you regret eating that donut? How much will you regret settling for that shit job your entire life? How much pain will you suffer later to avoid it now? Every day we choose inaction over action it makes it harder to take action. Every time we take action we become stronger. Waiting is the least motivating thing you can do.
I have spent most of my life in an existential crisis. Maybe not most, but an annoyingly long time. There is no abstract mission, purpose, or paradox that will satisfy your existential needs. What we see as courageousness is really just a habit of taking action.
Motivation, passion, inspiration, courage, opportunities, possibilities, strength … these things only come with taking action. As someone who overthinks everything I am desperate to justify my actions. Without a reason to do something… well, why even do it? I need a cohesive narrative. He reports on the behavior of people who he put through a gambling game:. The mind that tells you about your life is probably wrong.
Scientists tell us we make up memories all the time. Whatever reason you give yourself for doing something came after the decision to do the thing. Act and let the narrative follow just as courage and motivation do. When you are building a company,you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.
Cortes had men to take on , Aztecs. What was his grand plan? He sunk his ships to eliminate any possibility of retreat. Why was this effective? Yes, it created the force of necessity, but how? Cortes noticed that his men were being weakened by thoughts of retreat and seeing their wives. Once the ships were sunk, there was only one thing they could focus on: Actually doing the thing is the only accurate test of possibility.
Defining Action
We stack the odds against ourselves. Or we become delusional about the greatness we will achieve in some undefined future. Test your mettle the only way that matters: Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be. Teenage boys are comically arrogant. This overconfidence can be useful, especially for entrepreneurs, yet it can quickly become delusional. Instead of growing from their failures they cowered from them. They were made timid because they were afraid to get back into the ring.
Because they thought the abstract ideal was more important than reality. We rarely can bring our exact vision into existence — we are not gods creating worlds! We are humans, like the Wright brothers. We go out onto the field with one design, crash, and go again. A dedication to action makes you humble while allowing you to do more than you ever thought possible. Antifragile is one of the most important practical philosophical ideas to emerge in our recent history and, for me, putting action ahead of abstraction is the most important step toward becoming antifragile.
In the next section we are going to look at 20 common reasons for in action and how we can take action anyway. The following are some of the most powerful rationalizations that stop me from taking action. They usually seem logical. Even once you know about them it takes a ton of practice to learn to lean into them. These work for me. Not always, but enough to matter, a lot. Maybe you have the same reasons for not doing things. Did you call for help? Did someone say help is on the way? If not, nobody is coming.
Nothing is going to come and give you motivation to get off your ass. Nobody is going to come and give your life purpose. Nobody is going to offer to start a business for you. Nobody is going to offer to fund your movie. Nobody is going to come and force you to have good habits. Nobody is going to come and ask to be your significant other. The person who tries is the person who gets help. The person who loves is the person gets loved — and has a better chance at a significant other. The person who makes shitty cheap movies is more likely to raise money to make a less shitty less cheap ones and eventually really good ones.
Are you waiting for a blog post? A book that will finally convince you to sack up? Somebody to come and tell you exactly what to do? Remember that help can only come to those who help themselves. Most of the time conditions suck for most things. Warren Buffett and his partner Charlie Munger ignore the macroeconomic environment when they make decisions. Instead, they look for businesses that will be doing well in 20 years — through recessions, depressions, and booms. Charlie Munger has given some fantastic lectures to college students.
You are going to live through good times and bad times. You are going to live in periods of excess opportunity and times when it looks like there is zero opportunity. If there is no opportunity currently then you better be getting as good as you can for when opportunity comes. And when it does come? Again put your head down and seize the moment. Munger said that Berkshire Hathaway, one of the most successful companies in the world, has been made by about 20 great moves.
Without those 20 their track record is miserable. They were able to make those career-defining moves because they were ready. They were ready because they were always focused on doing the best work they could in the present moment. This applies no matter the surrounding conditions. Why is it not worth it? Did you learn anything from this set back? Could you make it happen if you really wanted to? I think you could. Do you have something better to do than try to make this work though?
Or are you just being soft? Double your efforts and lean into the setback. You set your aim from a rational place and now your pain-avoidance tendency is overvaluing the setback and undervaluing your aim. You should train yourself to react into setbacks, not flinch away from them.
You can always quit tomorrow or next week. Many people get stuck in a cycle of jumping ship as soon as things get hard though. Are you frustrated by a plateau that you can work through?
Do you have an idea of what to do next? Treat yourself like a startup. If you have a history of quitting as soon as things get hard then force yourself to stay in it a while longer and push through. Ask yourself what taking action would like… that question will probably point you to the thing you know you want to do. Clever plans and abstractions will have you believe that you can start at step 3.
Stop expecting to see a clear path to the end. Coca-Cola started as a pharmaceutical company. Twitter was the side project of some guys working on a podcasting company. You start by ignorantly trying. Through failing you figure out what you need to learn about and get better at. Act before you research or think anymore about the thing. For more check out Heuristic 2 from earlier in this post. Whether you smile or scowl at the person walking down the hallway can completely change their day. What if that person was going to commit suicide but you made him feel noticed?
It sounds ridiculous but, as a recovered depressive with suicidal thoughts, I can tell you it matters in a huge way. It ripples through people. If you smile at one person they are more likely to be nice to the next person they meet and on and on. I call this the Invisible Legacy. I think that every one of us has a silent, invisible legacy that we can never measure and that nobody will ever applaud us for.
This is the thing that will change the world the most. Even more than the people we think as great figures in history. It might not change the world in the ways that are easy to measure. It might now solidify your place in a history textbook… but really, how much has a person in a history textbook changed your life? I guarantee you that a hug at the right time from somebody you love changed your life more. Or one lesson taught to you by your grandpa.
I think we ought to focus on the people we can right here right now. The other thing, aiming at making a difference usually alters the difference you make, for the worse. At the personal level, I may feel good trying to nudge a vegetarian to eat raw kebbeh Lebanese steak tartare because I like it myself. But, and here is the key, should there be a spillover, it will necessarily be positive. It is therefore convex. Typical via negativa rules are convex. You should never have to prove that what you do is GOOD for society hard to express in words and rationalistic framework , but you can certainly show you are NOT hurting others more than yourself via skin-in-the-game.
Overwhelm, one of the 7 Motivation Murderers , is one of my biggest enemies. I always think from Step 1 to Step Obviously, if you take action you will stop being overwhelmed. You immediately shift your focus from staring at the impossible path in front of you to taking the first step. I used to live on a small ranch. My parents would make me move truck loads of sand. To places that needed sand, apparently. The point is, when I started shoveling the sand, it got easy.
I would stick my headphones in, listen to a chapter of some success book, and look up and see the pile halfway gone. It got easy as soon as it was begun. Break it down into small goals that fit on a single sheet of paper. Things overwhelm us because they feel undoable. We get overwhelmed because we think that everything should be under our control. You might die before you become profitable. You can force yourself to try really hard.
I forget that progress is a possibility. I forget that I have any power in the world. There are no transformations waiting to happen. You know what you can do? Go to the gym. Reject the next donut. These tiny acts will snowball into massive changes. This technique is what got me out of a suicidal depression where I felt completely trapped for more than a year. Be fatalistic toward the past and present.
No amount of analysis is going to change anything. There are no magical answers waiting for you in your past. So aim slightly forward. Put your mind in a future possibility. Not a five year plan, maybe a five minute one, maybe even a tomorrow plan. Remember that your brain is messing with you.
Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality.
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For instance, you study every day and learn something in proportion to your studies. If you do not feel that you are going anywhere, your emotions will cause you to become demoralized. You may study for a year and learn nothing, then, unless you are disheartened by the empty results and give up, something will come to you in a flash. This summarizes why there are routes to success that are nonrandom, but few, very few, people have the mental stamina to follow them. Most people give up before the rewards. The creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, suggests using a system-based orientation instead of a goal-based one.
The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system. Turn your goals into systems. For instance, I had a goal of getting to lbs. I turned the goal into a system: As soon as I did that I started making real progress. Note that this is very close to Internalize Goals —Antidote 1 from Reason 8.
He was broke but refused to get another job. He scoffed at bagging groceries or anything else. On the other hand, John D. Rockefellar spent an amazing amount of time checking and double-checking his bills to make sure they were accurate. He went so far as to sue doctors he thought overcharged him. This is the richest man in the world worrying over a couple of dollars.
He saw the potential of those dollars invested, he saw the money he was saving other from being screwed by this doctor. If you think certain types of work are below you then you will block possible paths for yourself. Your arrogance will show and others will see it. Shut up and go to work as best you can. Then do research once you understand what information you actually need to know. For more on Input Deprivation Week, see the final section.
There is literally nothing you have ever done that is perfect or will ever do that is perfect. Instead, let it prove to you that there is a market for what you wanted to make. Having less resources can actually be an advantage. Consider the Wright Bros. They had a few thousand dollars and beat out corporations with millions of dollars in funding.
The size of these companies actually worked against them. People with this reason often take pride in their busyness. You might gain energy from going to the gym. Or forcing yourself to start working on your side project.
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Cut out the 5 most energy-sucking activities in your day watching TV, drinking alcohol, engaging with shitty people, discussing politics…. Then select ONE thing that you can do today that would make things matter much more. And reducing your workload.
The Overthinker's Guide for Taking Action: A Complete Guide
Maybe pick up a fiction book. Elon Musk is trying to populate Mars. I would never tell him to stop trying though. Shift your focus from the probability of things working to the magnitude of awesomeness that would happen if they did work. Your life could be totally transformed if your startup worked, if it fails then you still have your job.
The Secret Ingredient of Success: Taking Action
Taking action gives you the chance to attract the resources you need. You might not have what it takes to create the business you want to create. You can start laying the groundwork though. Again lower the bar. Begin with what you have and identify exactly what resources you will need to take certain steps. Since then I have begun to understood exactly how to create sales funnels, content that works, and everything else.
Taking Action that Really Matters
My skills are expanding. My understanding is simultaneously deepening and broadening. Shift yourself into a growth mindset. Realize that you know more than you did a year ago. Your skill are better than they were a year ago. Just take the first step and have faith that everything you need will follow. Up until now, what action have you been taking? Taking in information and reorganizing the way you consider the world, your goals, and your behavior. However, it will be mostly wasted unless you do something with it.
It needs to become a part of your daily life. Putting these tools into action will help. Adopting all of them simultaneously will probably be unsustainably difficult, though. If would suggest adopting one or two, practicing them for a week, then maybe adding another or switching one out. Because it makes you aware of not taking action. Our inaction usually comes from our hyperactive mind rationalizing our way out of doing things that matter.
They are purposefully non-specific in some areas because the whole point here is to not overthink it. Practice like this for a week before you read anything else about practicing meditation. Inevitably I stop meditating. Then a couple weeks later I notice my brain feels disorganized. Then I go back and meditate and the brain gets clean again and I repeat this over and over. This means shifting all your goals to things that you can control. If you want something you have no control over, you may be paralyzed and not take action. However, if you set goals that you have control over, then you will always have the ability to take action.
William Irvine explains how this concept might work for an aspiring novelist in his excellent book A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Are of Stoic Joy:. By internalizing her goals with respect to novel writing. She should have as he goal not something external over which she has little control, such as getting her novel published, but something internal over which she has considerable control, such as how hard she works on the manuscript or how many time she submits it in a given period of time.
It can, however, substantially reduce this sting. Instead of moping for a year before resubmitting her manuscript, she might get her moping period down to a week or even a day, and this change will dramatically increase her chance of getting the manuscript published. We talked earlier Reason 9 about how this is similar to creating systems instead of goals.
Here is the quote from earlier:. He acted as well as he knew how. Internalizing your goals can be a powerful way to keep the motivation through tough times, plateaus, and haters. Put everything that matters within your control.