To Succeed, You Must Be Impatient With Action and Patient With Results
One thing that too many people are missing is the courage to start and a bias towards action.
There are many forms of hiding, but probably the most common is procrastinating. Instead of taking decisive action now, you’ll just wait until that perfect “someday.”
Of course, the circumstances are never perfect for you to get started. And like Tim Ferriss says in The 4-Hour Workweek, “”Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”
If not even starting is the first mistake that people make, giving up too quickly is the second.
Most things take time. There is a long period where it looks like nothing is happening, the things start to click. If you quit to early, you’ll have put in the hardest part of the work, but missed all the benefit.
You need to be impatient when it comes to action and patient when it comes to results.
Let’s look at some of the ways this principle plays out when it comes to personal finance.
Impatient With Action, Patient With Results in Frugality
One of the strategies that I advocate with respect to saving money is the Quick Wins project. The idea is that instead of…
