Tag : action

  • Procrastination: leave it until tomorrow

    Posted Aug 8th, 2011 By in Time Management With | No Comments

    Stop procrastinating!

    “If you pile up enough tomorrows, all you’ll find is a bunch of empty yesterdays”

    That’s from the movie “The Music Man“, quoted by Jeff Lewis in the movie “The Compass“.  Apparently it’s said by the hero, when the young lady he’s waiting for turns up late and suggests that they should perhaps put off their plans until tomorrow.

    And he’s right, of course.  This is at the heart of why procrastination is so damaging to us – we keep finding ourselves looking back at days when we didn’t quite achieve anything – days that are tomorrow’s empty yesterdays.

    So what can you do about it?  Simply, do today what can be done today, even if it means working a bit late, or staying up a bit later.  Take action, don’t allow tomorrow to be chock full of what could have been achieved today.  Because tomorrow has its own tasks and goals, and you’ll have to put some of those off if you try to stuff today’s actions in there too.

    Maybe you think tomorrow’s a bit of a slow day, so that doesn’t matter?  Are you serious!!?  The only reason you would have a day with nothing planned tomorrow, is because you didn’t plan it.  And if you’re not planning even one day ahead, it’s not a great surprise that you’re not achieving as much as you could, is it?  And if you’re happy with that level of achievement, feel free to carry on.  Just don’t complain – accept that’s your level of performance, and where you are is your comfortable level of wealth and happiness.

    And if you want to truly be your best, do today what you planned for today, and plan for tomorrow to be too full for today’s leftovers.

  • Action!

    Posted Jan 15th, 2011 By in Audio and Video, Business Strategy Coaching, Motivation & Management, Time Management With | 1 Comment

    Business Strategy Coaching:

    The importance of actually doing something !

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  • Opportunity + Preparation = Success

    Posted Apr 24th, 2008 By in Clarity & Focus, Motivation & Management With | No Comments
    Opportunity Matrix™ - how NOT to be a Busy Fool

    Opportunity Matrix™ – how NOT to be a Busy Fool

    Have you ever noticed how success just seems to happen to some people – you know, the lucky ones who seem to have everything go right for them? The type who opportunities actually seek out, like they have some kind of money magnet in their heads. The type who breeze up, wave their magic wand, and everything just falls out just as they want – just because they’re lucky, or gifted, or somehow endowed with some kind of magic.

    Not a bit of it! These people make their own luck – they have their minds and imaginations open to opportunities, they research and evaluate them thoroughly, and once they’re confident that it’s a good opportunity for them, they prepare for success. It’s not some magic formula – it’s hard graft, and it’s logical and detailed, but it makes business far more enjoyable.

  • Action Quote #3

    Posted Apr 15th, 2008 By in Motivation & Management With | No Comments
    Opportunity Matrix™ - how NOT to be a Busy Fool

    Opportunity Matrix™ – how NOT to be a Busy Fool

    A while back I said I’d be sharing my favourite quotes on action with you, so here’s another one, from Thomas Jefferson this time:

    “I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

    For me that reminds me that all the “lucky” people – the ones who were “in the right place at the right time” – weren’t there purely by chance. They got there by doing something – even if in some cases they didn’t know exactly why. It wasn’t just luck that got them where they are, it was action – getting up and doing something.

    It really winds me up when I hear or read people saying that you can get rich just by wishing it – by hoping that you’ll get lucky. The chances are, you won’t – unless you’re prepared to get off your bum and take action. The so-called “Law of Attraction” is often misquoted as saying that you only have to think of what you want and it’s yours; it doesn’t say that – at least not in all the half-way serious books – it says you can affect how things pan out for you by how you think, but you have to take action to get what you’re dreaming about.

    It’s like the story about the religious guy who was struggling to get by, when he remembered the priests had always told him that if he asked God with enough belief, he’d get what he wanted. So he asked God to let him win the lottery. Weeks and weeks went by, and still no lottery win came for him. Eventually, his faith wavering, he cried out to ask why God hadn’t helped him as he’d asked.

    “Give me a break son,” came the booming reply, “at least buy a ticket!”

    Are you waiting to win the lottery without buying a ticket?

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