Taking Action and Avoiding the Instant Gratification Trap

So how important it is to take action? Richard Branson is one of the big leaders on this basis. He talks about always taking action. He has only one motto always, “Screw It, Let’s do it”. If an opportunity presents itself to you always say yes and then figure out how to do it. The reason I am saying this is because I’ve personally spent a number of years procrastinating. I had many failures like fear of failure, fear of what other people will say.

The whole instant gratification thing we have these days is that I have to get all of this working before I get any reward, the risks of my current job etc all of these things stopped me from taking any action towards the things that I wanted to know, towards the better life that one wants, saving for a house, building a business on the side, are the things I wanted to do. I’ve spent years instead of saving for more houses, interest to build this business and I didn’t know that I kept talking and dreaming about it. Until one day I decided that I am going to stop being a dreamer, I am going to do things. I know a lot of people in the same situation or maybe even you are in that situation. An essential part is to take action, you don’t have to build all the plans, neither do you have to know where it’s going to end up.

All you got to do is to have a directional thought that how you are going to achieve what you want to achieve and even if you don’t know how you are going to do it yet start to make progress. Every journey starts with the very first step and even you are taking the smallest step towards what you want to do and what you want to be. Therefore take some action and get a change in your life.