The action moves everything, and hope is for losers – that’s what I learned from my youth. If not for my father, I might have never had the opportunity to write online and build a side hustle. If he hadn’t taken action, we would still be there – hoping to reach the end of the month however we could. But he didn’t give up. When I return to my hometown and meet my old friends, they hope things will improve. They expect things will change now that they have more possibilities than ever. But they don’t do anything. And it pains me to know they will never change.

Hope is for losers.

How do you start doing something?It might seem like a stupid question, but it can be challenging when you don’t know where to start.You often know where you want to go but don’t know how to get there. Other times, you don’t even know your purpose. So you must go through some preparatory steps before you find your path. But with this 4-step life plan, you will find an answer and change your life by taking action.

How to Change your Life by Taking Action

Finding a purpose is the easiest task when hoping for something to happen. And if you do, your motivation gains the traction of the final goal . So you will start doing things with more ease.But <a href="https://www.cosmopolitanmindset.com/the-hidden-reason-you-havent-found-your-life-purpose-yet/">searching for purpose </a>is challenging. Anybody could find useless goals that last for a few days. Yet only life-long purposes have the power to push you forwards . So you must dig deeper into your passions and willpower. You must understand how far you want to go and how you plan to do it.

1 – Find a purpose.

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Hope is limited only by your imagination. But life doesn’t work like that.You can’t work on anything your imagination produces. Otherwise, you will work on too many goals at once and fail at everything. Milestones are a simple way to group and correlate a few tasks. So instead of splitting your attention, you will focus on a common goal.<ul><li>Using milestones, you group tasks with a common goal. </li><li>Working with waves, you define a subset of objectives with the same deadline. </li><li>And with focus points, you group activities with the same topic. </li></ul>

3 – Work with milestones, waves, and focus points.

I want you to transform your hopeless dreams into tangible goals. Think about everything you ever dreamt of, and search for your purpose there. Then, transform that purpose into simple and actionable steps (S.M.A.R.T. goals).

I was born in a poor village in the East of Romania, where nobody knew anything about the world outside . We knew everything about everyone in the village. But we ignored there was a better way of living. And, in some ways, for many people, that was ok. My parents waited for a change for many years, and it never came. I had no power to change the outcomes of my family yet. But then, my father left the village to find a better place for us. And that was the first time I saw a change in my life. Luckily, for the best.

Living among poor people.

4 – Start doing.And now that you focussed your attention on a few goals, you can work towards them.Leave your life of hope behind, and start doing. Leave your hopeless dreams and start building something real, one brick at a time.

4 – Start doing.

One difference between hoping and doing is that, in the second, you will work towards clear and defined goals . When you don’t have anything to work for, you can’t track your success because you have no feedback on your success rate. So you may fall into many traps:<ul><li>you may think you still have time , </li><li>that you did enough for today , </li><li>or maybe your goals are unreachable . </li></ul>But if you break your goals into simple actions and analyze your efficiency on each, you can work better and deal with your weak points. So while transforming your purpose, use the <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/how-to-write-smart-goals#:~:text=What%20are%20SMART%20goals%3F,within%20a%20certain%20time%20frame.">S.M.A.R.T. goals technique </a>.

2 - Transform your purpose into goals.

I learned that hope is useless until I was a child. Here, I will show people the differences between hope and action.

1 – Find a purpose.

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