Big Decisions, Big Actions=Big Results, Small Decisions=Small or No Results: Fix Your Life NOW!

This was something I learned from listening to Tony Robbins. I have so many smart friends who sadly don’t meet their potential. I remember chatting with a friend and he had some challenges in life. Really unhappy. Using coping mechanisms like alcohol or marijuana. I asked him: “You know this is a big problem, What are you going to do? It’s  really important to sort this out soon.” His response: “I’m ‘planning’ on it.” 

Sadly, that is a sign that he will do nothing. It’s easy to plan. It’s hard to take action and do the work. It’s pretty common, in life, career, startups. 

People get stuck. Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. Yet searching for certainty is dangerous in our present world. There is NO certainty these days in anything except that everything is changing. Even worse this seems like learned helplessness, that there is nothing you can do about the situation you are in. That you are trapped. But realize nothing is permanent, for both good and bad. So you can change things. Just depends on how badly you want it. 

I know it’s hard. I’ve been there myself. But you have to take action even if you are not ready. Or the real world intrudes and you will have to do it eventually. After a lot of pain I might add. 

Get a coach. Be around other people you admire or ahead of you. Get to the center of the activity and network. Environment and Proximity matters.

Then you will have Immediacy. Do it NOW. Have a sense of urgency. You only really have control at this moment. 

So the lesson is if you want to accomplish nothing this year? Say “I’ll do it tomorrow.”