"SPRING INTO ACTION" : 5 STEPS TOWARDS GETTING ACTIVE

5 STEPS TOWARDS GETTING ACTIVE

Things rarely happen on their own. To get things handled, done, and accomplished successfully, one must take action. Considering that most people suffer from a procrastinating downfall, getting started can be tedious and difficult at times. Not to mention agonizing if you’re not use to taking action or if you are mentally preoccupied by something else. The getting started part can be harder than actually doing the task at hand. I’ve searched around and here are a few tips that you can use to help you, “SPRING INTO ACTION.”

1.       TAKE ACCOUNTABLITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF: You are your own person! You are your own boss, even if you are working for someone else. I’m not advising you to get cocky and arrogant, but I am advising you to understand your value and self-worth as a human being and as an individual. Once you do that, you’d then be able to prioritize two things; where you want to be in life and how can you get there? The next step from there is asking yourself, how long do you want this process to take to accomplish your goals? If you don’t mind taking 30 years to accomplish something, continue to procrastinate. Continue to define yourself as unworthy, lazy, irresponsible, unwilling, and regretful- because that’s what you’d be if you look up several days from today and realized that you missed out on opportunities and accomplishments when the only thing you had to do was, “Just Do”. Develop and manifest your personal standards through this tip and understand your value because through life, the last person you should allow to cheat yourself is YOU!

2.       DO NOT SAY IF JUST ASK HOW: “If I do this, I’d be that…”, “If I do this later, I can do something else now…”, “If I do this, it might turn out positive…” etc. etc. When you make a statement, whether you know it or not, you are sending it out into the atmosphere by using forced energy. Ask yourself, “When I speak, or announce, or do what kind of forces of energy would I like to back up my actions?” If you are seeking positive energy for a positive outcome, use positive affirmations when you take on a task. “I will do this today…”, “I’m going to have this complete and finished by…”, “I will succeed at the task at hand…”. Before you begin to do anything or once you begin to think about your actions, put a positive twist on it and affirm it into the universe. This will cause a domino effect of realistic manifestation- granting you access to a different world in which you might have not experienced before. When a person says “if”, they are not confident about the outcome. Speaking strongly by demanding that “you will” will help you actually do whatever it is that you need to do. Saying “if”, not only says that you’re not confident but says that you don’t know how. Now if you don’t know how- LEARN HOW BY ASKING HOW. Get to the bottom of the mystery by putting knowledge in your brain to keep you from being ignorant so that you may properly accomplish your goal(s).

3.       GET ENTHUSIASTIC AND MATIVATED: If you desire to do something, but have yet acted upon your wants and needs, then your desire to accomplish your goal does not match your desire to want it. You have to get motivated! Feed your brain with ways to stay inspired and encouraged. You have to almost psych yourself out by consciously amplifying your subconscious into finding what you seek by any means necessary. Get happy about the task at hand; because the gratitude of accomplishments will increase once the benefits start pouring in. Motivation and enthusiasm will push you towards pursing your goals. Before you know it, you’d be eager to coast the journey of taking action. Shout for joy! Smile! Sing! Do whatever you have to do to energize your mind, spirit, and body towards handling your business and taking action. If not for success or for yourself, do it because you are able to do it, because there is someone out there who is not only incapable physically but mentally as well.

4.       START OFF BY TAKING BABY STEPS: Before we became mobile adults, we were once a baby, a toddler, a child, a teenager, and a young adult. Before we got to where we are today, we had to learn to crawl, walk, and speak. Before you decide to save the world, start off by saving yourself, your environment, and your city. Once you tackle those, you’d then be able to take on the state and country as well, metaphorically speaking. The point is, it may take time to accomplish your long term goals but that doesn’t mean that you can’t start off by focusing on the short term goals first. I’m not saying be less ambitious but start off with something that isn’t too time consuming or do something that doesn’t seem so hard. In the land of procrastination, jumping into a huge responsibility seems discouraging at times.

5.       MAKE A TO DO LIST:  Once you’ve mentally prepared yourself to take action, write a to-do list of the things that you have to do, want to do, and need to do. Write this list as you see fit. I always write mine from most important to least important, and less tedious to hectic. I do the easiest, most important task first, and then later tackle the hectic heavy task. Before you know it, you’d have everything on your list complete with time to spare for leisure.

I hope that you take everything that you’ve read or skimmed through into consideration. No one wants to look up and see that their life has passed them by. No one wants to live in fear of doing and regret. No one wants to be held back. When you feel discouraged, refer back to this, try to remain positive, and take a deep breath. We are all individuals and move at our own pace; remember that before you get caught up in the rat race.