How to Make Taking Action Easier

Okay, so you might know by now that to live your dreams you are going to need to take action. Of course it is more complex than that, but one of the biggest fundamental steps is taking action, but how can you keep taking action on an ever increasing amount of goals that keep getting bigger and bigger so that you live your dreams? Won't that just get too hard? Well, no.

You see, you mind is a wonderful thing, particularly your subconscious mind. It does so many things all the time while your conscious is only focusing on one thing.

Because of this, you can actually kind of delegate tasks that usually take place in your conscious mind and put them in your subconscious, virtually freeing yourself from the struggle of performing the task, if there was a struggle.

It's like when you began to walk. At first, as a baby, you had to keep immense focus on putting one foot in front of the other, hold your balance, then another foot, almost there, oh no! Im falling! And down you go. But you got back up and did it again and again and again until you got it down, and now your subconscious gets to focus on walking when you go from place to place while your conscious mind can focus on talking to a friend.

So how did we do that? How do we delegate it? Well, another word for all of this is habits.

When we repeat something enough, it will eventually turn into a habit and no longer need conscious focus. For example, I have been exercising and lifting weights for six years now, and it is definitely a habit. I no longer spent mental energy deciding if I am going to go work out or not, I just do it basically without thinking about it. Easy. Done.

Or, for example, I am, by nature, a shy person. However, I decided to make a habit out of talking to new people and be friendly. This has formed into a habit now, and I do not have the same struggle when going up and talking to someone new. It's more subconscious now.

(By the way, your subconscious can almost always outperform your conscious. Think about how much better you are at talking when you are talking to your best friend rather than giving a speech or talking to an intimidating figure...)

So, in order to make this whole "Live your Dreams" thing easier, how about you start taking consistent action to the point where it becomes a habit. Just like lifting weights, if you only do it once in a great while, you will never develop muscle. But do it consistently, and you will reap the benefits.

REMEMBER, this is your life. Make it extraordinary.

Sean Golden

Challenge Yourself

Everyday I look around and see people complaining about being tired, having no energy, being overweight, not exercising enough, being shy, not having enough money, having nothing to do...

When I look at this, I see one thing: These people are not doing anything, and are consequently complaining about it. Instead of realizing that they are not taking action and start taking action, they would rather just complain about it, because they then are at least doing something about it.

I urge you not to get caught up with this type of thinking. Instead, when some aspect of your life is not how you want it to be, do something about it! Don't just sit there like everyone else and let your life pass before your eyes.

Taking consistent action will revitalize you, giving you more energy to accomplish even more of what you want to!

So, how exactly do you challenge yourself and take action?

1. Figure out a goal.
   -In order to know what you what to do, you have to figure out where you want to go. It's like driving, you can go very fast anywhere you want to, but unless you know where you're going, you might as well have just stayed home... Figure out a goal.
2. Think about the things you can do to achieve that goal
   -You don't have to have it all mapped out, just the end destination and a few baby steps to begin with. When your driving at night, you don't need to see the entire destination at the beginning, just the 50 feet in front of you where your headlights can shine light.
3. Take action
   -Now is the real challenge, take action. Start living your dreams! Why settle for anything less? You can have the life you want, so just go out there and get it!

A great thing to remember during this process is that you should enjoy the journey, not just the end result. Realize that every step you take is a step closer to your dreams and ENJOY THAT!

Live with enthusiasm and make a great life for yourself, starting...oh... how about the next 10 minutes? =)

Sean Golden

How to Stop Procrastination

Alright, now let's be honest here... if you just searched the internet for "How to stop procrastinating" or something like that, then you obviously know that you want/need to stop procrastinating and have probably learned a few tips from other sites already...

If this is you, then your problem is not insufficient knowledge, it's insufficient motivation! Use what you already know and put it into action! Just make up your mind to do it! There is one tip that I can give you though:

You need to be able to trust yourself. What I mean is, if you say you are going to do something, do it. Just like if you tell your boss that you are going to give him the paper at 5:00 tomorrow, tell yourself the same thing, and if it's not done, punish yourself the same way. If you get in the habit of sticking to your word, you will be able to do something just because you said you would do it. That's motivation!

For the rest of you who may not know how detrimental or worthless procrastination actually is, consider this: To continually grow, you should focus on tasks or experiences from three categories: Work, Fun, and Rest. Work includes striving for your goals. Fun is everything that you enjoy (if you are really lucky, you can combine work and fun sometimes =] ). Rest is just relaxing, enjoying nature, sleeping, etc...

So, those are the categories that you should focus on for a balanced and great life, agreed? Well, procrastination is neither work, fun, nor rest!

Some people might argue that they are doing work, and if they are then it is not procrastinating. However, some people confuse "being busy" with working. Watch out for that. Others say that they are having fun, and if they are then it, again, is not procrastination. If they are not having a lot of fun, though, and know that they and easily have more fun doing something else at that moment, then it is procrastination, and they should stop doing whatever it is they are doing.

Now, this all assumes balance. If someone is having way more fun and rest than work (and it is not benefiting them), then they need to set their priorities straight, but that is for another post... (the same applies is someone is working way more than fun and rest and it is not benefiting them (more $ does not always mean better... use common sense))

So, start making yourself trust yourself, stop procrastinating and have a great life!

Sean Golden

The Fudamental Law of Growth - Take Action!

No matter what you are trying to do, achieve, gain, or develop, you are basically going to need to take action. Some of you might immediately start thinking of things that you don't need to take action to do, and that's fine. All I'm saying is that at some point, you are going to need to take action. You can sit on your butt all day long and visualize yourself riding a bicycle without the training wheels. No matter how many times you rehearse it in your head, eventually you are going to have to take real-world action or else you just wasted your time.

The point is, action brings about change quicker than anything else. Now, of course everything has exceptions, but just use your common sense. If you want to have something in your life that you do not have, possess a skill you do not currently own, or change a certain part of your personality to how you would like it to be, and therefore more authentic, you need to take action. So often we catch ourselves sitting on our butt, wishing that some part(s) of our life were different. We have already talked about fears, which is generally the biggest obstacle to achieving something important. Procrastination is the other one, but it usually applies to less important goals, not life-long dreams. However, chronic procrastination can lead to an unfulfilled life, so that will be the subject of the next post.

As for taking action... If you really think about it, wouldn't you want your dreams to come true? Of course you do! So first break through your fear to neutralize it, and then take action that is in accordance with your dreams. Although, all this implies that you know what your dreams are. If not, take some time to think about them and write them down. This will help you focus on achieving them.

Most of accomplishment is motivation. If you get in the habit of consistent action, your motivation will rise. There are other ways to increase your motivation, but that is for another post.

Take Action (let's say within the next two minutes? Come on, you did learn something from reading all this right??)

Sean Golden