Yet action alone isn't enough either. Running around doing things that are not related to your goal certainly can't help you achieve it. When you are engaged in purposeful action, or action directed toward your goal, you are closer to achieving it. Sustained purposeful action is what lets you get there.
But often we feel hampered in taking purposeful action. We might feel unprepared or just plain scared.
Overcoming unpreparedness is easier than overcoming fear. To prepare yourself, you can always take a class, read, study, apprentice, or model someone who has already done what you want to do. Study, practice, learn from mistakes, keep going, and you will become prepared.
But what it you are afraid to take a chance? What if you are afraid to take a class, ask for help, or do whatever it is that you need to do in order to initiate your path toward success?
Unless you take a chance, you will continue to carry with you an unfulfilled desire. If that's what you would rather do, so be it. But if you want to see your desire fulfilled, you must stand behind your desire with sustained purposeful action, despite fear. After all, everyone experiences fear. Those who overcome it with courage--not fearlessness but courage, nerve, boldness, pluck, grit, and gumption despite fear--are the ones who succeed.
One of the best methods for overcoming fear is engaging in self-talk.
- Tell yourself that you can achieve your objective by taking sustained purposeful action.
- Tell yourself that you have the skills and abilities to achieve your goal.
- Tell yourself that nobody ever died of embarrassment.
- Tell yourself that a hundred years from now a mistake you might make today won't matter anywhere near as much as you thought it would.
- Tell yourself that no one is better than or beneath you, that everyone is different and has his or her own talents.
- Tell yourself that your own approval of your thoughts, words, and deeds is more important than the approval of others.
- Tell yourself that by taking a chance, you give yourself a chance to succeed.
Go ahead. Use your verve nerve and take a chance, make a chance, and succeed!
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