Taking action when conditions are not perfect April 23, 2014
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Fear and Anxiety, Overcoming Fear.Tags: fighting fear, overcoming anxiety, personal development, personal development plans, personal growth, philosophy, procrastination, self-improvement, taking action
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There are a number of factors that can interfere with the successful implementation of our personal development plans.
One of these is, of course, procrastination.
Despite the hard work we do on our personal growth and our desire to do better, we are all guilty of this in varying degrees.
Two of the main causes of “putting things off” stem from fear and the related tendency of waiting for conditions to be perfect before taking the actions we know are needed.
David J. Schwartz (1) offers some concise advice:
“Action feeds and strengthens confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone”
“Don’t wait until conditions are perfect. They never will be. Expect future obstacles and difficulties and solve them as they arise.”
(1) The quotations are from his book, The Magic of Thinking Big.
Achieving goals: “Talk does not cook rice.” December 4, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, goal setting, personal development, personal growth, positive thinking, self-improvement, setting goals, taking action
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When working on our personal growth programs, there is a trap we can fall into of creating an imbalance of too much information input and not enough output in the form of action.
This can be true with both our major life goals and our shorter term goals, or the tasks we want and need to accomplish on our path to our larger goals.
The reason we engage ourselves in personal development, or self-improvement, is so we can make efforts towards moving forward with our lives in a positive direction.
The danger lies in becoming addicted to absorbing a constant stream of advice from personal development leaders, but not taking real and specific actions on the areas we want to improve in our overall life situation.
I am guilty of this myself, as it can be quite soothing, particularly when we are faced with fears and doubts, to take comfort in the positive messaging of recognized personal growth experts.
That is why I like the self-explanatory Chinese proverb at the beginning of this post:
“Talk does not cook rice.”
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