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It’s important to know what you want and to have mental clarity, but without a follow through plan, you won’t make progress. You have to take the time to understand each course of action that you proceed with.

You need goals and you need a good strategy in both your personal and professional life. But then you need to push forward and give the action that you undertake everything you’ve got. Each step that you take on your journey to personal success leads you to the next one. You can’t get where you want to be and meet those goals without making a move.

Plenty of people come with good ideas. They make a list of goals that are designed to bring their ideas, their wants, and their dreams to reality. They have an excellent strategy in place for pulling everything together. But then they wait. They wait until the ‘perfect’ opportunity or the ‘right’ time before they make their move. The problem with this is that first, there are no perfect opportunities and secondly, procrastination is the killer of action. When you’re procrastinating, you’re not moving forward and you run out of steam. When you fall into the trap of ‘I was going to, but…’ you run the risk that you will never see the end result of your dreams or your goals.

What you wanted out of life will pass you by and as you grow older, you’ll have plenty of wistful regrets. Make sure that you look over what it is that you want in life and do something to move forward in that direction. Even if it’s a small something that you take action with, it’s progress. Make your move mentally before you make your move physically. In all of the actions that you need to take to make what you want possible, you have to realize what you’re capable of and what you can’t handle.

If you want to run a business and you have no idea about record keeping, payroll, accounting and all of the financial wisdom that comes along with that area, then take the action of finding someone who does.

You don’t gain the mental training overnight that leads to peak performance. You develop it. You work it out. When you take action, you’re transferring that mental training from the mental to the physical. It’s much easier to carry out the actual task if you allow yourself the mental run-through of seeing it proceed into fruition. You can optimize your performance by doing whatever it is that gets you ready.

Do whatever it is that gives you the unwavering focus that you need. Some people read back over their life’s mission statement. Others engage in a habit, such as reading empowering quotes or words to get themselves mentally charged up to act.

Mental training to take action often relies on putting yourself out there and making a commitment publicly. For others, that would be uncomfortable, so the commitment might be made to themselves only.

Engage yourself in exercises to fortify your focus and become an action-taker. Use a timer on your smart phone to record your progress with each task. Whenever you realize you’ve gotten distracted and off course, stop the timer.

See how often you’re abandoning tasks and avoiding things because you’ve become your #1 obstacle in your professional life.