Success Champions
The Importance of Taking Action By Wendy Babcock
I “It’s easy to get caught up in the moment where we are visualizing the results.”
n a world full of people wanting to manifest new business, quality leads, the perfect client, and of course, more revenue; the most logical step is the one that is grossly underutilized. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment where we are visualizing the results. We are natural gatherers of information, expertise, and new trainings to point us in the direction we want to go. How many times have you purchased an online program or subscribed to the Holy Grail of expertise of whatever your niche market is? Likely you started the program with gusto or enthusiastically opened the emails from the new subscription. But let me ask you this, did you finish that program? Did you continue to open the emails as they poured in? Did you implement what you learned? Did you get to work right away? Did you take action? Or did you move on to the next best source of information, training, book or expertise hoping
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“that” would have all the answers? This can be a vicious circle of informational death. You can keep gathering, learning, and buying all the programs and books in the world, but if you repeatedly fail at taking action – then you are repeatedly failing at moving forward. The moment you decide to take action is the moment you’ll see all the difference. Taking action can be scary. It means you’re putting yourself out there for the world to see. You are setting your plans in motion. Action is creating a schedule you intend to stick to no matter what. Action is cold emailing or cold calling your ideal clients. Action is sitting down and actually writing or typing words on a page and starting that book that’s been whirling around in your head all these years. Action is going to the loan officer at the bank or applying for that grant to start your business. Action looks like putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward with purpose. Action is doing all the things you need to do to succeed. Don’t get me wrong, I love all the woo-woo stuff like meditation, vision boards, visualization, raising my vibration and all the great feelgood laws of attraction stuff to help us manifest our dreams. I practice a lot of that daily. But don’t get stuck on only that part of it. That’s where most people start and stop on their journey. They ask the universe to show up and give them everything they desire, but then never take
