5 Step Formula to Taking Action in Life (How to Take Action / Create a Bias for Taking Action)

Siim Land
Siim Land
Jul 21, 2017 · 4 min read

This article gives you a simple 5 step formula to taking action in life. Take action and put success on autopilot.

Take Action for Life

In life, there are 3 kinds of people.

  • Those who want to make things happen.
  • Those who wonder what happened.
  • Those who really make it happen.

Whichever you end up depending on how much action you take in life.

This is one of the most crucial traits to have if you want to live successfully. It doesn’t matter what plans or intentions you have if you fail to execute on them.

So, where do you start? — By training yourself to take more action on a consistent basis.

It’s like a skill or a muscle that gets stronger the more you use it. Let’s call it the proactivity muscle.

First Step: Change Your Story

The way you see yourself has a huge impact on your action-taking. If you lack confidence, have poor self-esteem, limiting beliefs, doubts and fears, it’s much harder for you to do anything that contradicts that image of yourself.

On the flip side, if you saw yourself as a beautiful, hugely successful, proactive person who sets goals and takes massive action towards accomplishing them, you’re creating a bias for action-taking.

Change the story you tell yourself and you change who you are.

Step Two: Set Your Goal

After changing your story, you then set a goal you want to accomplish. It can be your life’s purpose or something smaller, like giving a speech, creating an event, selling a product or getting a date.

Whatever it may be, you want it to be clearly definable and with some recognizable milestones. Start from the end result and reverse engineer yourself step by step back to the beginning. What do I need to do first to get started? What’s the easiest thing I can do right away? What’s the next and the next? Come up with a strategy.

Step Three: Switch on Hunting Mode

What I mean by this is priming your brain to seek out opportunities for taking action.

The reticular activation system (RAS) is a part of our brain that helps us to recognize things in our environment deemed to be important.

  • If your best friend Steve owns a red BMW M3, you’re more likely to see more BMW’s in your field of awareness, thinking maybe it’s Steve.
  • Carpenters also look at the floor and furniture differently when they enter a room.
  • Sherlock Holmes pays close attention to things ordinary people can’t even come up with.

To activate your RAS for success, you have to change your focus.

Start seeking out opportunities where you could do something that would take you closer to your goal. It’s an exercise and a mental rehearsal to identify ways of taking action.

Step Four: Take Deliberate Action

Once you’ve found your target, then all you need to do is execute and take action.

If you have too many opportunities to choose from, you may become paralyzed by the vast amount of options and end up making no decision at all. That gets you back where you started — an endless circle of inaction and reactive behavior.

If you feel overwhelmed and can’t make up your mind, then the best thing to do is to simply go for the first opportunity you come across.

Just plunge in, throw yourself into chaos and you better learn to swim, or you’ll sink.

Step Five: Keep Taking Action

After you’ve taken action once, you need to do it again many times. The more you recognize certain things with your RAS, the more often you’ll start doing it. The more action you take, the more you’ll start taking action.

This is where consistency and deliberate practice are crucial. Building the proactivity muscle requires you to work it.

If you’re doing this just for the sake of practice, then you would want to execute on every opportunity you can find.

Once you’ve overcome your fears, built some confidence, failed many times, gained a few successes, then you can dial down slightly.

Instead of running after every option you have, you start focusing only on the select few that give you most results. Everything and -one else can turn into distractions that will make you take action but do so on the wrong things.

5 Days to Taking Action

It’s really that simple…

But it’s not necessarily easy.

There are many things that can slow down your progress and prevent you from taking action, such as your own voice of self-doubt, limiting beliefs, bad habits or simply not knowing what to do.

You’re in luck…

I’ve created a FREE 5-Day video course that can help you to get started.

  • Every day I explain you a particular topic in the form of a video.
  • Then I give you some action steps.
  • Before you can progress onto the next day’s video, you have to complete the action steps

The idea is to develop good habits of self-care and growth, but more importantly, you’re conditioning your brain to take action and making it unconscious. — A BIAS for taking action.

Join your free 5 day video course and start taking action!

P.S. I also offer high performance Body Mind Empowerment coaching on how to master your physiology, augment your mindset and enhance your life to the next level. CoachingCheck it out!

Stay Empowered

Siim


Originally published at siimland.com on July 21, 2017.

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Siim Land

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Siim Land

A blogger, writer, a self-empowered being on a hero’s journey and an Odyssey of body mind spirit to transcend the limitations of mankind.

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