Stop Procrastinating and Take Action!

Jun 29
08:04

2011

Danny Welsh

Danny Welsh

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Procrastination steals our dreams. If you want to stop procrastinating and take action then whenever you think "I can’t," you MUST do it, whatever it is. There is nothing wrong with an attempt and a miss…in the grand scheme of things it is almost always better than not swinging the bat at all.

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Procrastination steals our dreams. If you want to stop procrastinating and take action,Stop Procrastinating and Take Action!  Articles then whenever you think "I can’t," you MUST do it, whatever it is. There is nothing wrong with an attempt and a miss…in the grand scheme of things it is almost always better than not swinging the bat at all.
A good friend of mine went out and started a brand new website design business a couple of months ago. He was amped up and excited about the whole thing, talking nonstop when he got started.
At the time, I was excited for him and encouraged him to go for it, to reach for the life of his dreams.
Recently I called him up and I asked him how things were going, and he said "great".
He proceeded to tell me with lavish enthusiasm about all the wonderful and profitable things he’s going to be doing. All the plans and ideas he has for his new company. All the things he is looking forward to being able to have and do when the big bucks started rolling in.
Funny enough, can you guess the one thing he DIDN’T tell me?
That’s right…
Anything that he’s actually DONE.
You see, I could quickly discern this by listening between the lines. As a matter of fact, this situation resonates with me. I recognize this tendency in others more and more as the weeks pass as a constantly-striving-for-that-next-level entrepreneur myself.
Why?
Simply this: I’ve been there.
Many, many times in fact.
You see, this friend of mine is a dreamer. He’s a planner. A real big thinker.
But…the one thing he’s not?
He’s not a doer. He just doesn’t take action.
(Not yet anyway)
This kind of thing depresses me. It frustrates the heck out of me. Makes me want to throw my hands up in the air.
How many people do you know like this?
Are YOU like this guy?
Do you procrastinate on your dreams?
It’s ok if you are. It’s ok if you do. I oftentimes have been that same guy in my life. There’s no secret there. I’m most definitely a big, big dreamer— as often as not in the clouds as I am solidly on the ground.
But on the ground is where the action is.
We’ve just got to realize that the greatest idea in the world won’t get you anywhere unless you stop procrastinating and take action. The truth is that an "idea" is just an idea. It’s fragile, delicate. It’s fleeting, ephemeral. It has so little solidity a small puff of air can blow it away or a negative thought shoot it down.
We don’t even know if it’s a good idea until something gets done and the world has a chance to choose to take a look or take a pass on it.
It’s true that the entrepreneur is nothing without the idea.
But the idea is nothing without the work.
If we don’t take action and put in the work, ideas don’t grow. Plans fall apart. Freshness grows stale. Ambitions wither. Dreams die.
It’s a sad, sad story, oft repeated.
What about you?
What are you putting off?
What are you waiting for “the time to be right" on?