If you really want to succeed, you’re going to put in a lot of time and effort to make it work. You will need to take action. Here are 3 reasons why taking action is important if you want to succeed:

It’s your first step towards success

If you don’t take action, you’re never going to take that first step towards achieving your goals. You’re never going to go anywhere. As they say, it’s always the first step that’s the hardest.

It’s relatively easy to choose the right goal and to make a grand plan on how you’re going to achieve that goal. But actually going out there and taking that first step, that’s hard.

Many people have fun at the planning stage, but the moment they actually need to do something, then the reality will sink in.

“That’s a lot of work,” they’ll say. They’ll start procrastinating, or they’ll start thinking it’s a bad idea. And they’ll just stop there.

That’s all they do – just plan things, but never really take action.

You find out first-hand what’s really working

When you take action, you find out that whatever you’ve planned isn’t always going to happen. It isn’t always going to be feasible.

Sometimes, what you think something is may be different from what it actually is in real life. This is why being flexible and knowing when to adjust is so important.

Your plan is just a general guide – you don’t have to take it at face value. When you take action and go out into the real world, you find out what’s working.

You learn to go with the flow. You learn there’s a better option out there that will help you achieve your goals much faster than what you’ve initially anticipated!

You grow as a person

Taking action is important if you also want to grow as a person. On the way to success, you’ll encounter so many obstacles, problems, and challenges. That’s when you grow as a person.

When you learn how to overcome all these obstacles, when you gain new skills, when you develop resilience, you grow as a person.

If you don’t take action, you’ll remain as you always have been, doing the same things you’ve always been doing.

Reflect On Your Achievements

When you start running out of ideas, or you start feeling like you’re not making any progress at all towards your goals, you can try looking back at your achievements.

Remember how far you’ve come, all the milestones you’ve achieved to date, and you’ll see that everything you’ve done so far has not been wasted.
Start a journal, write down your thoughts and your feelings. You can also use it to chart your progress.

When you’ve got concrete proof in front of you that you’ve made significant steps towards your goals, you’ll feel so much better.

You’ll feel motivated to continue doing your work and to improve yourself as well.

Learn From Others

If you look up to somebody, you can use them as motivation to continue improving yourself. This is especially true if that somebody has found success in life. You’ll learn a lot from them.

You don’t even have to know them in person. You can read news articles and books about them. Learn their background – do they have a special story to tell? Let them inspire you.

You can also start following them on social media, if they’re on there. Many successful people use social media nowadays, and they strive to provide plenty of value to their followers.

Mentor Other People

Teaching other people what you know will also motivate you to become a much better person. Other people are looking up to you, you don’t want to fail them.
You want to show them that you’re capable of being a good mentor. It will help build your self-confidence and your self-esteem.

I’m sure you’ve had a favorite teacher or mentor in school – what did they do to make them stand out from the other teachers?

I’m willing to bet it’s because they taught you a lot about different subjects, maybe about life in general. You can do the same to your mentee(s) – show them you genuinely care for them, it will motivate them to learn. Their motivation will rub off on you – so it’s really a win-win situation.