If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place” [Nora Roberts].
Passwords. The magical combination of letters and symbols and numbers that unlock important doors. How many passwords do you have? If you’re like me, too many! There are so many passwords floating around in cyberspace that some of us have resorted to utilizing a “password vault” to help manage access to our on-line resources.
A password is a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access information or resources. A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass through [dictionary.com].
So, in effect, when I provide the password to success, you will then have been granted access to become successful. I have to say, I am very excited and pleased to be able to provide this to you. Are you ready?
The pasword is . . . action! I realize it’s not super exciting, but sometimes passwords are like that. The “secret” is that it takes action to reach your goals and achieve success! Good intentions, great ideas, and a gigantic dream are all wonderful, but if you don’t throw some action into the mix, you’ll remain stuck right where you are, with exactly what you have.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action” [Frank Tibolt].
How many times have I heard (and, have I said), “I’m just not inspired to get started on that project.”? No energy. No interest. No compelling reason. No action.
You shouldn’t be sitting around waiting for inspiration to arrive. You should begin — even if the exciting I-can-take-on-the-world-feeling is missing. Before you know it, inspiration will flood the scene.
Ernest Hemingway said it this way, “As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.”
Have you ever had a project you delayed starting? Maybe it was something small, like weeding the flower bed or, perhaps it was something large, like filing your taxes or taking the next step toward your dream. Either way, the longer you put it off, the more difficult the task appears.
“In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it” [Charles Baudelaire].
You know how it goes. The project is unpleasant or scary or you have something else to do, so you put it off until tomorrow or next week or next year. And well, the next time you think about it, the task has grown larger because you neglected it, or become more stressful because there is less time to finish it. UGH! Sometimes we are our own worst enemy!
All of us should take Nike’s advice and “Just Do It.”
“Action is indeed therapy.
It erases doubts and fears, anxieties, and worries.
It capitalizes on failures and mistakes and turns them into positive influences.
It exercises the mind for problem solving and creativity.
It develops poise under pressure and uses wisdom and experience to consider alternatives and to provide a back-up plan.
Action calls forth the best in us all, and it becomes the password to success” [George Shinn].
Glenn Van Ekeren asks, “Suppose you had five birds sitting on a wire and three of them decided to fly. How many birds would you have left on the wire?
“Five birds remain. Making a decision to fly without acting on the decision is a waste of energy. The momentum to do something about our decisions is energized by action.”
Now that you know the password to success, what’s holding you back from opening the door?
Whatever you are, be a good one!
Deanna
