I’ve mentioned before about dreaming big and visualizing big. However, ultimately the only thing, which works, is taking action. Visualization and dreaming are necessary first steps to taking action, but without the last step will not get you to your goals.

When you write your goals, it is best to come up with a plan of actions, which will lead to each goal. When coming up with your action plan think of alternate outcomes and what you can do in case of different contingencies. Next decide on that very important first step and take action as soon as possible.

With each action that you take notice if it is taking you nearer to or further away from your goal. Repeat the actions that move you toward your goal. Modify the other actions and learn from them. If you continue taking actions and using the feedback to guide you toward your goal, you’ll reach that goal, no matter what.

As you act and do things, you change yourself and the world around you. When you act under all circumstances and change your plans as needed you’ll succeed and achieve. This achievement will make you Feel Good and hence you’ll get into the type of positive cycle that I have previously mentioned.

To this end it is important to remember that those who take risks by acting even when they may not succeed will always succeed more than those who only act when success is absolutely inevitable. The best hitters in baseball have the most strikeouts also. Most self-made millionaires have many so-called business failures before they succeed. The thing that differentiates these highly successful people is that: they dream big; they make plans; they take actions and are flexible; they understand that there is in reality no failure but only results; they use the feed back from their results to increase the actions which produce the desired result and learn from other actions; they persist; they continue to take actions until they succeed.

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