Ok guys a quick question for you: Four people are standing by the road waiting to cross over the other side of the road as soon as the opportunity comes, but one DECIDES to cross the road because he doesn’t see an opportunity anytime soon, now my question is how many persons are left by the road side?
If you answered three, well you are totally wrong, but don’t sweat it, I thought so too.
Here’s the simple logic: One person DECIDED to cross the road, but that doesn’t mean he actually did. It was just a decision, he might have made that decision and still remained with the others.
Many of us have been caught up in situations where all we do is plan, but we end up achieving very little or most times nothing because we refuse to do anything about it no matter how little, we fail to understand that every little effort is a step forward into results.
Making a decision is not synonymous to taking an action. It’s a common mistake. Deciding to eat healthy is entirely different from actually doing what it take to live it up.
It is our nature as humans to decide on a whole lot of things, but we end up accomplishing nothing.
This period of pandemic has been an eye opener for people in this part of the world who now see relevance in acquiring a skill, others decided to setup a new business and so on.
However, these decisions without work is totally null and void. It will affect nothing if action is not taken. For a decision to matter and achieve success, action is paramount in this journey.
This is a really simple concept, which makes me wonder why it is such a big deal for people to migrate from the decision stage to the action stage. Shortly, we will be looking at these reasons.
Even the Bible says, that faith without work is dead. Faith in this context is decision.
When we cultivate the habit of putting our decisions and ideas into work (action) we are in a better position to achieve more than our expectations. By getting into the habit of putting ideas and decisions into action, we are strongly in a better position to achieve the results we deserve.
As Gandhi rightfully stated, As you words translate into your actions, your actions translates into your habits, while your habits becomes your values....
It’s obvious that Action is the difficult part of this process, it takes all the work, stress, sacrifices, it’s the unglamorous part.
While on the other hand decision-making is the glorious part, the part that comes with great pride. On its own a decision can go far but without the right action results will be lacking.
I had some friends I motivated into doing great things for their lives with my decision and ideas, but as usual it wasn’t backed by a sincere action.
In my next post we will be seeing several reasons why people don't take action.