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"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
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Acting upon your ideas
Results come to those who act upon their plans, not to those that spend most of their time seeking the right way to do it.
When it comes to goals, projects, and other to-do items, it’s easy to get stuck too long in the thinking and planning phase. And unfortunately, most of them will never be done.
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Being a Doer
This requires a lot of discipline, commitment and risk-taking, but it's the only way to make progress.
If you are not daring and focused enough, you can never get past the “thinking” stage of getting work done.
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Embracing the action habit
Actions you take beat life-changing intentions. Not doing anything is the same as intending to do something but never actually doing it.
Also, thinking about doing something is more exhausting than doing.
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Dale Carnegie
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Moving from thinking to doing
It's easier to spend time picturing our goal or what a project is going to be like than to actually do the project. We tend to value the thinking mindset more than the doing mindset.
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"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
Thomas Jefferson
"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
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Taking responsibility
You have the power to close the gap between where you are now and where you want to be.
You don’t win by sitting on the fence. You succeed by getting your hands dirty. There are no shortcuts to progress or mastery.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whatever you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
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“...the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times ... The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to...
“...the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times ... The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile."
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