Stretch
Reach
The path between wanting and having is doing. To stop just wanting, and begin having, then start doing.
The greatest, most well-conceived plans are worthless if they’re not acted upon. If it’s going to happen, someone must make it happen.
All sorts of outstanding opportunities are open to the person who is willing to take action. Be that person, take that action, with commitment and persistence, and reap the valuable rewards of fulfilling those opportunities.
You don’t have to be a world-renowned genius to be smart enough to take action. You don’t need anyone’s permission to act on your dream.
You must simply do it. Figure out what has to happen and take complete responsibility for making it happen.
Anything you truly desire is within your reach. Simply stand up, lift up your commitment, lift up your spirit, lift up your arms and do precisely that -- reach.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
-- Emile Zola
Into action
When you don’t feel like doing what you know you must, that’s the best time to go ahead and do it anyway. That’s when you can break through your old habit patterns to a new level of focus, performance and achievement.
That first step will require you to go against your natural tendency to put it off until later and to stay comfortably where you are. So how do you get beyond that?
Use your power of visualization to do two things. First, use your thoughts to make it even more uncomfortable, even more painful for you not to take action.
Next, visualize in great detail all the positive and desirable rewards you’ll create by going ahead and getting it done. In your mind, make it so compelling to take action that you cannot avoid doing so.
Many times in the past, you’ve successfully avoided action by telling yourself why you can’t or why you won’t. Now, choose to use that same power to tell yourself why you can and why you will.
You control the awesome power of your thoughts. And with your thoughts you can successfully visualize yourself into action every time.