THE ART OF TAKING ACTION

                  DO SOMETHING PRINCIPLE

It sounds wonky, but there are some psychological benefits to this approach to life. when we let go of the story we tell about ourselves, to ourselves, we free ourselves up to actually act(and fail) and grow.

That first morning that when I wake up self-employed, terror quickly consumed me. I founded myself sitting with my old laptop and realized, for the first time, that I was entirely responsible for all of my own decisions, I was responsible for teaching myself web design, internet marketing, search engine optimization, and other esoteric topics. It was all on my shoulders now. I needed to come up with some sort of strategy to get myself to put in the twelve- or fourteen-hour days that were necessary to get a new business off the ground. And that plan came from an unexpected place.

when I studied in high school, my math teacher Mr. packwod used to say,"If you are stucked on a problem, don't sit there and thinking about it; just start working on it. Even if you didn't know what you was doing, the simplest act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head."

I heard it like a mantra:

Don't just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.


I learned a powerful lesson about motivation. It took about eight years to sink in, but what I discovered over those long and the most important thing i've ever learned in my life:

Action isn't just the impact of motivation; it's also the cause of it,

Most of us committing to action only if we feel a certained level of motivation. And we feel motivation when we felt enough inspiration. We assume that those steps occur in a sort of chain reaction, like this:

Emotional inspiration-->Motivation-->Desirable action


if you really wanted to accomplish something but don't feel motivated or inspired, then you thought that you're just screwed. there's nothing you can do about it. it's not until a very big emotional life event occurs that you can generate enough motivation to actually get off the bed and do something.

the thing about motivation is that it's not only three part chain, but an endless loop:

Inspiration-->Motivation-->Action-->Inspiration-->Motivation-->Action-->Etc.


If you remained lack of the motivation to make an important change in your life. do something---anything, really---and then harnessed the reactions to that action as a way to begin motivating yourself.

I call this  "do something" principle.

The author Tim Ferriss relates a story he once heard about a novelist who had written over seventy novels. Someone on the journalist asked the novelist how he was able to write so consistently and remain inspired and motivated. He replied, "Two hundred crappy words per day, that's it." The idea was that if he forced himself to write two hundred crappy words, more often than not the act of writing would inspired Tim; and before he knew it, he'd have thousands of words down on the page.

If we follows the "do something" principle, failure feels unimportant. and when all the standards of success seriously become very very merely acting-- when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite--we propel ourselves ahead. We all feel free to fail, and that failure moves us ahead and forward.

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