Action
is the most important of all powers in Success Principles. You may have
all the knowledge in the world, but if you do not take any action and
apply that knowledge, there is no use of it.
You
may have a dream, might even have faith, but if you do not take any
action towards it, nothing will come out of it. Perhaps you have a dream
of running your own organization, and you only keep on saying that I
want to have my own organization, I want to have my own organization,
but do not make any efforts towards it, what will happen? The answer is
‘Nothing.’
Mercedes
Benz is a good car, but it is powerless, till someone sits in it and
turns on the engine. It is when the engine is in action that the car
starts moving and people look at it as it passes by.
You
know why majority of people never reach their full potential and excel
in life? Why they spend a life of mediocrity? It is because of two
reasons; first they do not have a dream backed with faith and second
even if they do have a dream they never take any action.
There
are great numbers of talents in this world. There are more people who
go to their graves with their music still inside them. They spend their
entire life doing something they hate doing, living in the place they
don’t like, driving the only car they can afford. They keep on wishing;
‘I wish I had more money,’ ‘Oh! I wish had a better job’, ‘I wish I had
better education.’ The problem is that they keep on wishing, but they
never turn their wishes to dreams and goals and never really take any
action towards it.
Great Benefits Of Taking Action
Action brings Energy
Action
is always positive. As soon as you take action, your physiology will
change. You will feel energetic, and as a result your mind will become
positive. Just imagine you have returned home after a hard day. You feel
tired and slumping in the couch. A friend calls you that he has two
tickets for the hit movie you so much wanted to see. What happens, you
spring up, wash your face, change your clothes and reach the movie hall
as fresh as a daisy. So what happened? Your springing up was the action,
washing your face and changing the clothes were the action that not
only changed your physiology but also produced the required positive
energy that washed out the negative, that is feeling tired.
Action destroys fear
Most
people do not take action because they have various kinds of fears.
What is fear? Fear is F.E.A.R. i.e. ‘False Enemy Appearing Real.’ So,
fear is an enemy that does not exist but it appears so real in our mind
that we create a mental monster and are scared to take action.
Paradoxically the only antidote to fear is Action.
We
have fears in our mind because of either ignorance or because of our
past failures that are rooted deep in our sub-conscious mind. When we
take action we gain experience. And when actions produce results and we
see ourselves performing the experience of failure in our sub-conscious
mind is overwritten with an experience of success. In fact not taking
action only strengthens our ignorance and our fear. This is how it works
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right“
- Napoleon Hill
“Action conquers fear.“
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga