What PUTS YOU OFF taking action?

I'm new to all this, but to me it is not knowing what to do next. For example, I just completed my free ebook and got all set up on aweber. Now that I have managed to finish that project, I am kind of at a loss for what is the next step!

Fear of Failure, Fear of Success or just plain lazy!

People are afraid of what they don't understand, naturally. "Scared of the dark" is a real biological mechanism installed to keep us alive.

So when you consider leaving your confort zone, and spending your all-so-precious energy and resources on unknown results, your body and mind naturally give you the fear response....

However, fear isn't always rational or logical — "A fool is a man who looks for logic in the recesses of the human heart," right?



Taking action in spite of fear, uncertainty and doubt is courage — one of the prerequisites to lasting wealth in my opinion.

One word - DOUBT.

I think for many people 'perfectionalism' is a real crippler. I know it used to hamper me a lot but I'm gradually learning to get over that.

What out me off from taking action in the past was the daunting task of building a website, writing all the content and then doing all the SEO work.

I learned wordpress, outsource all my content writing and SEO. Simples. Never looked back :-)

I agree that doubt is the word !
afraid to lose money , but on the otherhand spending money on the next best thing to make it online.
Once your are done spending money take a risk at losing money . better to lose some money than keep on spending money that get you nowhere!

I really can't answer this even after thinking for a few moments :confused:

I got a complete "vision" of what I want to do, my plan is pretty easy to do, I got more than enough guides/material to do it and I honestly believe that it can pretty easily generate results even for a beginner. I even have dozens of ideas from my own head which I'd like to try. Yet I always badly delay taking action. Although at least at some point I take action, thanks to my clear vision of everything.

I honestly wondered for good ten minutes what might be the reason for this but can't think of one. I'd bet it for laziness, but I really am not a lazy person in other things. Weird :rolleyes:

Fear of failure is definitely the biggest one, not only for me but for most people who are going straight into I.M

But the true reason that everyone doesn't take action, is the fear of success, even though they may not know it.

For most things I'd say it's probably competition. I occasionally come up with some very convincing and unique ideas, but the worry someone with better resources than myself might replicate it often prevents me from taking my approach towards exploring it seriously.

Not sure if that falls under the "Fear of Failure" category, but I think it's definitely my biggest obstacle.

If I have to spend a lot of time learning how to do something in advance, I tend to give up right then and there, unless the overall strategy discussed is fairly straightforward. For me, this is a great turn-off.

no money.. didnt want to spend a time doing boring seo job but have no money to outsorce it :p

fear of failure, and knowing that the money that I will spend might go to waste...but as with anything in life, there's always risk(s) involved

Excuses, doubt, fear of failure, fear of success all play an important factor on why it is easier to just think about the possibilities with out taking action.(an all too over used phrase on this forum)

But think about this for a second, What is the cost on inaction? It is usually more expensive to not do anything or to hesitate in taking action. That costs us a lot of money, money that you will never have a chance to gain back.

If the time comes and you decide to make a bold move, it may be too late for it to work or if it does work think of how much potential income you have lost for putting it off for so long, even if it is only one month that it took you to start moving, that is one months worth of income that you will have lost.

I know nobody is perfect and I too have seen the ugly face of inaction and of just waiting for the perfect moment, and it cost me terribly 6 months worth of work I had to do again.

What I learned I can sum up in three words:


I hope you can take some of this and use it toward your learning in IM and in life.

If you cannot figure out yourself what is keeping you, I suggest getting a mentor or 1 on 1 coaching, as this will force you to take action. Since it usually cost money to get coaching or mentoring you will undoubtedly place more importance on it.plus you get insight from someone who has done it before and can avoid you some costly mistakes.

Lack of time, along with an abundance of information here at the Warriorforum that has me constantly peeking at threads and absorbing more... but mainly lack of time... parenthood is definitely a time eater. Lol! Especially when your child is just about to turn 2 this week.

Failure, been there with a website, but I just let it go and moved on. I think once I find a decent amount of time, I'm going to try to put together a website for an ebook I already wrote up, and see what happens with it. Worst loss is the domain name if the site doesn't do well.

Perfectionalism... WriterWahm mentioned that in here... I can agree for me, that also occurs a bit, though I get more hung up in the thought process rather than after I start up. I still have work to do on my two merchant sites, but I'd rather get them up and deal with the perfection bug bothering me, than to not launch at all. lol

I think a lot of it comes down to belief. I mean, if someone says to you walk 50 yards down that road, and I'll give you $100,000 you will go and do it because you know that without a doubt you can walk 50 yards.

When it comes to internet marketing, a lot of people really aren't sure if what they are doing is going to work. The more setbacks they have, or the more times the fail, they tend to lose motivation and stop taking action.

For me internet marketing is a self fulfilling prophecy. If you genuinely believe in what you are doing, you will take action. When you take action you will get results. When you get results you will believe even more in what you are doing, so you will take bigger action.....it goes round and round and round.

The image that I won't make it or will do it wrong.

i feel the issues i have is not so much the freebie reports but when you start to piece it together you soon then realise you need an upsell and a backend, my analgy is that it is easier to role a snowball down hill than it is to push it up the thing. What i mean here is you must have an understanding of the endstate plan. Where will your subscribers go after the free report? Do you have a blog to send them to? do you have your own upsell in place that follows the same theme as the freebie report. I am working on building the endstate membership site to my product and then divide it up in to bits (ie freebie report, upsell report and videos and continuity membership site) That way when i create the interest with the free report i am not running about trying to put STUFF together. Planning is the key i think.

My biggest issue is motivation. I get motivated but it quickly wears off.

I also spend a lot of time "planning" but never doing! That's also my biggest killer. I have tons of papers on my dest with writen out to do lists that never get touched after they're laid down.

Im a big procrastinator and lazy person but I've found that if I just say "get your lazy ass up and work now!" to myself like a mean boss would. I usually do what it is that needs to be done.

But, I always give myself a round of applause after the finished task! To keep my subconcious and mental programming in a positive manner.

High prices. There, I said it to you. If a product has a high price I delay the purchase until I have enough money. Well, that day never comes. Fact is, a low cost product will motivate me. Also, a good return policy helps me click the [BUY] button as I do not fear a scam from a reputable company. There are many important factors, but the main one is price.

Over-thinking and over-analyzing. This leads to analysis paralysis. Which is why someone wise said that it can be more rational to act first and think later rather than think first and never act.

Over thinking of failure and complicated anything, like you say " It's so complicated I can't do it" this kind of things end up getting people frustrated before doing any action at all.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than mental capacities.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

(sic) Lack of punctuation. In other words, it was meant.

Fear of being so awesome I'll have to give up my day job in order to take part in a series of terrible webinars with a bunch of nepotistic *******s on some 'social' cruise or other whilst deliberately withholding valuable info from a carefully chosen audience of (semi-affluent) newbies hanging on my every word.

Ain't catharsis great

Cheers,
Steve

I tend to undertake large projects, so getting started is usually the hardest part for me. Knowing how much work I have ahead of me is sometimes daunting.

Trying to make things perfect. Best thing is to take action when things are not perfect!

Having to write content myself sucks!

If someone puts off taking action, it just means they don't want it bad enough. They link more pleasure to not taking action than they do the pain of not taking action. You have to be self driven and motivated and it's not something that someone can teach you.

For some people, they don't get to the taking action point until they HAVE to. Like if their next meal depended on it.

What many successful business people have done is to take the kind of actions that one would take if their next meal did depend on it, but not have to actually physically be in that situation (their next meal does not depend on it but they work like it does). That is where things get EPIC and your business takes off.

Doubt and fear of success are my main hang-ups. I feel if I ever become successful at this online business stuff...someone will figure out I really don't know what I'm talking about or worse...they may prove me right in a public forum.

I know it's silly to be scared of something that will probably never happen but in my little paranoid world...everyone is Ernest Hemingway and I'm the 8th grader yearbook editor at best.