- So, let me know if this has ever happened to you.
You get really excited about starting a new diet.
You're starting to feel like crap about yourself
and you think a new diet will solve all your problems.
So you start doing some research online.
You read one article about the keto diet
and how it's changing millions of lives.
And then you read another article
about how the paleo diet is the way to go.
And then you keep on going down the rabbit hole
and you get into veganism and you get into
the carnivore diet which is completely a 180 from veganism.
Something tells me people on the carnivore diet
don't hate vegans, but vegans really hate people
on the carnivore diet.
But anyways, this kind of situation often happened to me,
but more about starting a business.
Back in university I was pretty stressed about
making my tuition payments and I was really frustrated
with my financial situation.
So I would often look online
for best online businesses to start in 2019.
And I'd read articles about how drop shipping
will make you millions of dollars.
Then I would watch another video talking
about how drop shipping is dead and you missed the boat.
So you should start your own digital marketing agency
or something like that.
The point I'm trying to make is that
we live in the information age.
And this is supposed to mean that we have an abundance
of knowledge and no matter what we want to do,
we can learn how to do it.
We can be whatever we want to be
and we can learn how to be that thing,
usually for free, online, using the internet.
While this is technically true,
we do have this unique problem.
There is so much information out there.
So many people telling you what the right thing to do is,
that it often contradicts other people.
And it all just becomes a wash.
We're kind of paralyzed by the amount of information,
not really knowing what path to take.
Being someone who spends so much time on the internet,
this was especially a problem for me.
But luckily I've adopted a mindset that really helps me
cut through the crap and just get on with my life.
I'm finding it's my preferred philosophy
for life in general.
And this philosophy or mindset,
I call the Shoot-First Mentality.
Rather than obsessively deliberating
over what path to take, just start walking one.
Making bold, uncalculated decisions,
firing from the hip, is often the antidote
to this endless deliberation.
If you make bold, courageous, decisions at the drop of a hat
and make this your default mode of solving problems
just trying something, noticing it doesn't work,
trying again, revising.
Having this action first policy can offer
a plethora of benefits.
Firstly, with an action first mindset
you can get better at things quicker
than people who are sitting on the sidelines
reading about it.
A great example of this is when I started this channel.
I had been really thinking about the proper way
to make a self-improvement channel
and theorizing about like, whether there was
a opening in the market for me or if it was too saturated
or how I could make myself stand out.
By the time I made my first video,
none of that really mattered.
Making my first video presented challenges
that I never knew I would have.
And I was able to improve upon them with every single video.
And I think it's two or three years later, here I am.
Things are going very well.
And I've learned a lot along the way.
Getting your hands dirty, making mistakes,
trying new things, is by far the fastest way to learn.
It's way faster than reading about it.
By watching videos about it.
Actually being in the act of doing
the thing that you want to do and failing at it
will make you get better, faster than anything else.
The second benefit of adopting an action first mindset
is that it hardens you.
Or as David Goggins would say, "It calluses your mind."
And this is all about getting used to discomfort.
If you train yourself to battle past the discomfort
of taking immediate, acute action,
then you're able to embrace that feeling.
You're able to push past the resistance holding you back
from doing what's right, rather than what's comfortable.
This makes you a very strong and capable individual.
In times of crisis where people are losing their heads
because something really tragic is happening
and something uncomfortable but necessary needs to be done,
you'll be the kind of person who can stand there
and do that type of thing because you're an action taker.
You're not somebody who worries and stays in their head.
You look for the opportunity to take the necessary action
and you execute on it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has this great quote.
"Do the thing and you will have the power."
It's hilarious quote because it's so simple,
but it's also a very popular quote
because it's so simply true.
It's really good at describing the one-to-one relationship
between action and results.
Nothing else will move anything other than action.
Thinking about it, theorizing about it, worrying about it,
fantasizing about it.
Nothing changes anything except taking action.
Do the thing and you will have the power.
Another reason why having an action first mindset
is superior to a planning first mindset
is because with an action first mindset
you're gonna get burned.
But the lessons you learned by getting burned
are the ones you remember.
So I have a pretty funny story about this.
We're told our whole life that gossiping is bad.
Don't talk about other people behind their backs.
You know, don't talk (beep), basically.
I was also told this my whole life.
The reason why I didn't really register,
I just knew it was bad. Don't do it.
But fast forward to when I was about 16.
There I was at a social outing
and I started going off about how stupid
some lady's outfit was that I saw.
And I kept on going on about it,
just to get attention to myself.
I was hoping to get a few laughs, ridiculing
this one lady's outfit that we could all relate to.
And after going on about it for like, I don't know,
30 whole seconds, I realized that
no one's really laughing at all.
In fact, they look pretty uncomfortable.
And that was because sure enough,
that lady's daughter was one of the girls I was talking to.
It was one of the most devastating moments of my life.
My heart completely sank.
I turned into a shell of a human being.
Definitely top three most embarrassing moments of my life.
And I can guarantee you I never made that mistake again.
But do I regret it? I don't.
Because I was firing from the hip.
I got burned and I'm a better person because of it.
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Okay guys, I'll leave you with this.
There's a lot of people who fit into this category;
somebody who chronically thinks of business ideas.
You have a million dollar business idea every second week.
You're always thinking of new things that could blossom
into your financial freedom.
And say, you do this, say you're thinking of business ideas
for five years and you still haven't started a business.
Within those five years you've probably thought of
several, multimillion dollar business ideas.
You probably have.
But nothing came of it because you never learned
how to develop a business.
Action taking wasn't your first instinct.
Theorizing and planning and fantasizing was.
The kinds of people who develop multi-million dollar
businesses don't have any more special thoughts
than you do.
They just have special application.
They've been digging in the trenches, trying and failing,
learning how to start a business, juggling the logistics
of running one successfully.
Failing a few more times, and eventually stumbling
into improving their strategies and getting
to the point where they're comfortable managing a business.
And when they think of their million dollar idea,
they know how to apply it.
They just go and do it.
But if you never learned to take action,
your ideas will always be just that, ideas.
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