In recent years I have begun to consolidate some of the major lessons that I’ve learned over the last three decades on the personal development journey. One of the single most important things you can do to move your life forward is simply to begin to take constant daily action. No matter what challenges, limitation or obstacles you face the fastest way to make a shift is simply to begin to take action. In today’s episode I’m going to take you on a deep dive into the power of action and why it matters for you right now.
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Transcript
Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you.
Speaker:Once again, welcome friends as always to the daily podcast.
Speaker:Really good to be having this time with you as always.
Speaker:Hope you're doing okay with you.
Speaker:Walking running, driving in the gym, piloting a spice shuttle.
Speaker:Actually, I think they've decommissioned those now, but whatever you're doing.
Speaker:Welcome aboard to the daily podcast.
Speaker:Hope I can bring you just a little bit of encouragement and motivation because
Speaker:as we always say, you don't need a whole big bunch of ideas to change your life.
Speaker:You just need one good idea that you actually prepared to use.
Speaker:We are not sure to good ideas.
Speaker:If you think about it.
Speaker:You know, the way that the internet has democratized knowledge, right.
Speaker:The the way to do just about anything on the planet is available to us.
Speaker:We can research it, we can find it.
Speaker:We could study it.
Speaker:So the best personal development strategies, the best goal setting systems,
Speaker:all of those things are available.
Speaker:But that doesn't necessarily mean that everybody is using
Speaker:them or even using any of them.
Speaker:So it doesn't matter so much what the systems and strategies are.
Speaker:Well, I should clarify.
Speaker:They're important that we use the best possible strategies for our circumstance.
Speaker:What matters more than anything is that we're actually doing something
Speaker:we're actually using those strategies.
Speaker:We're going to talk about that today, before we jump in, please make sure you've
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Speaker:Uh, to speak at conferences and events and a whole bunch of other stuff that we do.
Speaker:So please check out the show notes, friends let's jump in today.
Speaker:Today today, today.
Speaker:Well, let's just flashback.
Speaker:First, yesterday, we talked about resilience and hardship.
Speaker:We talked about the fact that.
Speaker:As we go through this journey of life, there will be moments
Speaker:of difficulty and hardship.
Speaker:Sometimes many of them.
Speaker:Such a mystery, some of us roll through life without too much going wrong.
Speaker:And then others of us can have a really tough time of it.
Speaker:But what matters, isn't so much the quantity.
Speaker:It is the quality of our response to difficulties and hardships.
Speaker:That makes the difference.
Speaker:And on that theme today, we're going to be talking about action.
Speaker:I did talk about this a few weeks ago.
Speaker:I used a quote from PEBLO Picasso.
Speaker:Who said action is the foundational key to all success.
Speaker:We very much live under the myth of talent.
Speaker:Don't we, this idea that really, that there are super talented people.
Speaker:And if we just did what they, you know, we just had their talents.
Speaker:Then our lives would just work out magically the way
Speaker:their lives seem to work.
Speaker:But what we do find when we look under the hood, when we sort of pull back the veil.
Speaker:We've ever seen that.
Speaker:Um, The famous wizard of Oz movie, you'll see that final scene where
Speaker:they pull back the curtain and they see what's really going on.
Speaker:When you pull back the curtain on so many successful lives.
Speaker:You do find certain natural abilities and proclivities, certain things that people
Speaker:were attracted to doing that they found.
Speaker:Interesting and that they had some affinity for.
Speaker:And that's a mystery too, right?
Speaker:Like how that works at, in individual lives.
Speaker:Everybody's different.
Speaker:Everybody just is drawn towards different things on the journey of childhood.
Speaker:So we've all got these different skill sets and talents.
Speaker:So, what is the difference?
Speaker:What is the big factor?
Speaker:I'm going to be honest.
Speaker:There is luck.
Speaker:There's definitely such a thing as.
Speaker:You could call it luck is some people are just in the right place in the right time.
Speaker:You know, look at someone like Michael Jordan, right?
Speaker:Like, uh, you'll be the greatest basketball or volt Tom.
Speaker:He grows up in the United States.
Speaker:If he'd grown up in Antarctica or if he'd grown up in remoter
Speaker:parts of south America or Africa.
Speaker:Maybe he wouldn't have had the opportunities to go all the way that
Speaker:he did to attend the high school that he did to turn the college that he did.
Speaker:So, yes, it's talent, but there's also certain accidents of fate and
Speaker:luck where we're born a family systems that, uh, that can really impact
Speaker:whether or not we get to use our gifts.
Speaker:Let's put those aside for a minute.
Speaker:And talk about the focus of today's message, which has really.
Speaker:Whatever our natural talents are, whatever.
Speaker:Natural benefits of luck and fight we've had.
Speaker:What is always going to matter, ultimately is the journey of action.
Speaker:The journey of actually doing things.
Speaker:So, what I can say to you is that I spent many, many, many years of my life.
Speaker:Kind of a little bit at the victim of circumstance.
Speaker:I often would feel that if something wasn't working or if I didn't feel like
Speaker:doing it, then that was some kind of sign that it wasn't the right thing to do.
Speaker:I would get overwhelmed by my own negative thinking patterns.
Speaker:I would allow.
Speaker:My past to dictate my present and future.
Speaker:And I genuinely kind of thought that the real task was to get my psychology.
Speaker:Perfect.
Speaker:Before I would go ahead and try and create the dreams and goals
Speaker:and realities that I wanted.
Speaker:And what I've learned over time is very much in the last few years
Speaker:is what truly matters is action.
Speaker:If you want to move your life forward.
Speaker:If you sit in a room and do nothing.
Speaker:Now, it is possible that somebody is going to knock on your door and offer you the
Speaker:dream of a lifetime, but it is unlikely.
Speaker:It is not impossible, but it is unlikely.
Speaker:It seems to be that the more things you do, the more context you make, the
Speaker:more books you write, the more videos and podcasts you record, the more.
Speaker:Do you know, decisions you make about health, diet, exercise, friendships,
Speaker:relationships, spirituality, the more things you do, the more choices you make.
Speaker:The more you begin to shape and change the game of life itself.
Speaker:I didn't get to write the script of how the cosmos is organized, but I
Speaker:can promise you that this seems to be.
Speaker:A powerful, powerful, universal principle.
Speaker:Taking action, taking as much action as you can reasonably take on key
Speaker:things day after day after day.
Speaker:So a lot of the times, we're not always going to know exactly what to do.
Speaker:That was another one of my great failures for many years was that
Speaker:I kind of felt that if I didn't know exactly the course ahead, if
Speaker:I didn't know exactly what to do.
Speaker:Then I would kind of spin my wheels and just kind of was
Speaker:white and, you know, earlier.
Speaker:This week, we talked about not waiting for the universe to send you a message.
Speaker:But I did that for many years.
Speaker:I'd kind of just wait until I felt I had some profound sense of cosmic alignment.
Speaker:So, what I desperately want to say to you today is, you know,
Speaker:take the benefit of my experience.
Speaker:Take the benefit.
Speaker:Of what I've learned.
Speaker:Which is that action matters just doing stuff.
Speaker:And often once you get forward momentum, once you start moving and doing and taking
Speaker:action, things begin to change for you.
Speaker:So some of you'll be listening, going well, what are you saying?
Speaker:You just think they just take massive action all over the place?
Speaker:Well, yes, that's pretty much exactly what I'm saying to which the next question
Speaker:is, well, what if we get it wrong?
Speaker:What if we take the wrong actions?
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Perfect.
Speaker:At least you've done something.
Speaker:And what you're getting now is feedback.
Speaker:You've taken action in the world and now you're getting feedback.
Speaker:And that feedback will allow you to make changes to the future courses of action,
Speaker:which will create these constant feedback loops, where you're getting information,
Speaker:you're changing your approach.
Speaker:You're changing your approach again.
Speaker:Something's really successful.
Speaker:You do lots more of that.
Speaker:Something's not working.
Speaker:You stopped doing that.
Speaker:None of these things are going to happen.
Speaker:None of this data is going to come into your life.
Speaker:If you're stationary.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Now there are times in life where we do stay stationary.
Speaker:There's times to be patient.
Speaker:You'll know them when they come you'll know when there's just a sense of.
Speaker:Relax.
Speaker:Just sit, be patient things will happen.
Speaker:But for the rest of the time, which I think for most of us is most
Speaker:of the time we need to constantly be doing as much as possible.
Speaker:Once I get out of the studio today.
Speaker:I'm taking my kids for walk.
Speaker:I've got a rice across and do a few things, and then I'm going to take my
Speaker:oldest daughter, do some soccer practice.
Speaker:And then I'm going to come back and do a bunch of other things.
Speaker:I'm going to work on a whole bunch of videos that I've been recording.
Speaker:So I'm just going to keep moving forward and, uh, friends, you
Speaker:know, I just find that if you want to beat things like depression,
Speaker:If you want to beat things like anxiety.
Speaker:So much of the time depression and anxiety come from rumination, they come from.
Speaker:Being very stationary and deep pressed in our energy.
Speaker:And in a lot of things like body posture and our breathing patterns.
Speaker:And we kind of collapse into ourselves, not minimizing the other ways that
Speaker:depression can come into people's lives.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
Speaker:I do.
Speaker:I understand that we can experience all forms of trauma in life, but a lot of the
Speaker:time depressive states can be entrenched by long-term rumination, long-term
Speaker:thinking and overthinking and overthinking and wondering, and worrying and obsessing.
Speaker:Whereas often, if you'll just get moving, if you'll just start moving forward,
Speaker:things can begin to really change for you.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I hope that's useful.
Speaker:Today's message.
Speaker:My friend is all about action.
Speaker:Where in your life at the moment, are you not taking action?
Speaker:Where are you?
Speaker:Procrastinating?
Speaker:What calls have you not been making?
Speaker:What a catch-ups and relationships have you not been working on what health.
Speaker:Uh, energy exercise, financial business, professional promotional goal.
Speaker:Have you not been working on.
Speaker:Pretty much any action is better than no action.
Speaker:So get to it, my friend, get to it, please make sure you've subscribed.
Speaker:Hit that subscribe button.
Speaker:Go and check out all the show notes go and grab a free access Pass to my book
Speaker:bridging the gap find out how to book me to come and speak go and check those
Speaker:notes but for now get moving huh this is the universe is talking to you this
Speaker:is me being a humble conduit of energy and action into your life take action
Speaker:get moving my name's jonathan doyle and this has been the daily podcast you
