So there is this fascinating well told riddle that I often refer back to when I speak
to audiences and it's this: there are five frogs sitting on a log so just
imagine this scenario, five frogs sitting on a log, four have decided to jump off.
And a question to you is how many frogs are left on the log?
Take a moment. So how many frogs are left on the log? Well the correct answer is five
because remember four only decided to jump off the log, and there's a big
difference between thinking and doing. You see success doesn't come to look for
you while you're sitting around and waiting for it to land on your lap, you
have to be proactive, you have to be on the offense, you have to be taking
massive action in order to move yourself forward closer to where you would like
to be and to have some of the opportunities that you would like to
enjoy in life. Ultimately, knowledge is only ever potential power because action
and execution is really where it's all at. Darren Hardy talks about this in his
book The Compound Effect, especially about the power of consistency. Because
if you are consistently in action mode, ie you have an action oriented focus,
then that compounds over time to what others see as results of your endeavors.
The results of your hard work and consistent actions over time, and that
momentum that you create means that it becomes so much more difficult to look
back at who you were before then because you don't want to go back to how things
were. Once you begin this experience of momentum, you never wanted to stop. It's
like this question that Darren poses in that book The Compound Effect, where he
asks you, you have an option I can either give you a million dollars right now
today, or I can give you one cent and I'll double it every day for 31 days.
Which would you choose? Now most instinctively might choose the million
dollars right now today, but if you look at the math behind the 1 cent doubled
every day for 31 days, you realize that yes it takes a while for that one cent
to grow, but it begins to go exponentially the more days we go into
that. And by the time you each day 31, actually that one cent has turned into
nearly 11 million dollars! That is nearly 11 times more than the million dollars
option most would have gone for. And that is the power of consistency it's the
power of having an action oriented mindset. And that really comes down to
the conversation that goes in your mind every day the
dialogue that goes on in here. Because really this is where the most powerful
dialogue happens. Why? The person you are going to speak with the most throughout
your lifetime is yourself. So what goes on in here determines how much action
you take. You see, how you see yourself, the beliefs you hold about yourself, that
drives how much action you take, and as a result, the results you experience. If
you don't really have much thoughts about who, who you could become if
you don't really have much self belief or belief in the journey you are about to
embark on, then guess what you're not really going to take much action, and as
a result, well how can you ever expect great results? So it really comes down to
the way you see yourself, how you talk to yourself and the beliefs you hold about
your potential. So you have an option really, you can in a year from today look
back and say I wish I'd started then. I wish I'd
started today, or you can look back in year from now and say I'm so glad I
started then. The option is yours. So take a moment now to reflect on what one
action could you take. Let me rephrase that, what one action will you and must
you take, that will have the biggest impact on all areas of your life. Because
when you commit to something, that's when tangible action begins to emanate from.
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