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Is |Action| Everything As They Say It IS?

by Magic Johnson
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Is action really all it takes?

So, I will very well get flames by this later on, but it's something I've been sitting on for a few months, quite a long time. And this is just my mind speaking.

If you look around you, from the day you were born, then validate what you know today _- with what you knew when you were a toddler.

Do you believe you have grown as a human being?

When you are a child you listen to your parents, and take a lot of commandos, when you are a toddler(1 year old) you function soly on autopilot.

But it's not only the screams for human pampering. It's also there inside, willingness and strength to learn how to crawl and learn how to walk. And later on, you may teach yourself how to ride a bicycle. (I did at age 5)

This within your reach, and by experience.

It's in your system, you only have to fail a few times.

The myth that we have to take action now(as adults) and we'll get our ultimate goals in the end, lacks, "if we try hard enough- we will suceed"

We no longer function on natural laws, and on autopilot. We focuses on what influences and experiences we have been going through, in the past years, and all back to our birth. We now have a free mind, certain belifs in our baggage, and a will to make a good impression in life.

We have now a huge issue, that could get us to fall.

We have become a social being, the influence of others.

False concepts, sourroundings of negativity and information that is of missleading nature.

There are so many obstacles to tackle before you are "As great and as well off, as the dude, who has it all"

So, if you haven't figured out how to succeed yet, and still try your best, then you have to let this sink in.

It's "what action" we "do" that matters.

Take the wrong actions the first few times, and you will likely get caught in this bad never ending loop.

If you want, you can confirm what I have just written. Just look at the financial meltdowns across the world, and all anxiety it has created on us.

It's steams from one thing only... Fear of change! Being stuck in the old, and afraid to change to something new, which you don't have yet to see the results off.

Johan "Magic Johnson"
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Moser
    You're right! Taking action isn't all there is to the equation. You can take action all day and keep spinning your wheels. Focused action is what you need to succeed.
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    • Profile picture of the author arclight
      Aaron has probably hit it on the head...action is important but focused action is really the core of how things get done.

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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    Hi, Magic,

    It is very true that we are influenced far too much by what others tell us we should be doing.

    Look around the internet and see how many people are telling how many other people how to do their work, how to live their lives, how to be successful, how to focus and so on and so forth.

    What makes these experts so good at telling us what we should be doing?

    CLEVER MARKETING!!!!!

    The internet is still relatively new and the tiny corner occupied by internet marketers is being exploited in a way that could never happen in the real world.

    Experts are created, not by what they know but by what they can sell.

    Look at how many people there are who spout on endlessly about the law of attraction! If this, so-called, law was even remotely as effective as all the proponents would have us believe, why are they still having to find clever new ways to part us from our money to create their own life styles when, according to what they preach, all they have to do is 'manifest' their needs and a benificent universe will provide it?

    Face it. The PMA sect was only able to flourish because of the expensive seminars and clever marketing ploys foisted upon the business world by very clever marketers. When you look at it, it was highly targetted to a market that could afford the phenomenal costs and was desperate to find a reason not to fail and a methodology that could provide a sense of well-being despite reality.

    The law of attraction has been drip fed to a much wider audience and, because of clever marketing and lucrative affiliate programmes, has infected all areas of human endeavour. There can't be a single internet marketer who has not been exposed to the very well produced film and honeyed words of the promotors.

    The result?

    The aspirants have been diverted from their track by false hopes and promises and their every effort has been contaminated by the drivel and propaganda so that, no matter what they do, they will always be needing remedial actions unless they can shake off the yoke of a sect like organisation and realise that one size does not fit all.

    We are all individuals and there is far too much marketing effort expended in attempts to squeeze us all into the same mould. It is our differences that can make us successful and it is our own, individual concept of success that we will aspire to - given the chance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Magic Johnson
      Fantastic guys, maybe I'm not alone feeling this way after all. And seeing the falls.

      So many newbies fall flat because they don't know how to get started, and what they really should follow, of all experts out there.

      artwebster: Fantastic post!

      I don't know what part to quote of your words. Everything you say I whole heartly agree with.

      In the end of last year, I stumbled upon a site, which debugged tactics used by greedy motivationl speaker.

      One thing which really stuck with me, they tell you to "think, mainfest and write down goals" _- and then when they get confronted, they say along this:

      "You didn't try hard enough, try some more"

      If we not to realize the falsy before it's too late, these words can break down a person from the inside out.

      We have no lessons on how to avoid shenanigans concepts and propaganda in our school systems. And so much can be said for school systems, but I will leave it out from this thread.

      Originally Posted by artwebster View Post

      We are all individuals and there is far too much marketing effort expended in attempts to squeeze us all into the same mould. It is our differences that can make us successful and it is our own, individual concept of success that we will aspire to - given the chance.
      That's how I look at it, as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author milan
    Action isn't all it takes. But is the most common top obstacle, so you could say that for a lot of people it really is all it takes.

    Many people know how to succeed - they just don't do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fabian Tan
      "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

      Many people fall in to two groups - they spend all their time sharpening the axe or they try to chop down trees with a blunt axe.

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      • Profile picture of the author Magic Johnson
        Originally Posted by Fabian Tan View Post

        "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

        Many people fall in to two groups - they spend all their time sharpening the axe or they try to chop down trees with a blunt axe.

        Fabian
        Great observation, I agree whole heartly.

        One of my favorite quotes.
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      • Profile picture of the author vvv12
        Originally Posted by Fabian Tan View Post

        "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

        Many people fall in to two groups - they spend all their time sharpening the axe or they try to chop down trees with a blunt axe.

        Fabian
        Great quote. Very true!!! Some people like to jump into things and learn from their own mistakes, and others like to learn from other's mistakes before they undertake any action.
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  • Profile picture of the author Buildingfutures
    Its not all about action, but the RIGHT action. The RIGHT action will get you want you want, but the WRONG action will get you nothing, and you'll learn!

    Action itself is a way to learn what works and what wont.
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  • Profile picture of the author ideasuniversity
    Actually the only bridge between dream and success is Action. Action gets you there, if not every dreamer would be successful, but what differentiate a dream and an achiever is action
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  • Profile picture of the author artwebster
    "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

    I suppose this is a typical throw away line and I see several people have agreed that it is meaningful to them.

    Like all assinine platitudes, it has been misinterpreted because the use to which it has been put is fallacious.

    If I have an axe and it is going to take me four hours to sharpen it, what in heavens name have I been using it for???

    An axe is a tool, like any other tool, and only works effectively when sharp and well maintained.

    A good axe owner would keep his axe sharp - not penalise himself by letting it be transformed from an axe to a lump of metal on a stick.

    Whatever tool box you work with, it is your responsibility to ensure that the tools within it are always ready for effective action.
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    • Profile picture of the author Magic Johnson
      Originally Posted by artwebster View Post

      "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

      I suppose this is a typical throw away line and I see several people have agreed that it is meaningful to them.

      Like all assinine platitudes, it has been misinterpreted because the use to which it has been put is fallacious.

      If I have an axe and it is going to take me four hours to sharpen it, what in heavens name have I been using it for???

      An axe is a tool, like any other tool, and only works effectively when sharp and well maintained.

      A good axe owner would keep his axe sharp - not penalise himself by letting it be transformed from an axe to a lump of metal on a stick.

      Whatever tool box you work with, it is your responsibility to ensure that the tools within it are always ready for effective action.
      I'm not seeing it like you do. Don't take the quote for the hours.

      I've never heard anyone sharpen their axe for four hours, yet one hour.

      It's as the "to be prepared" that I walk away with, in this excellent quote.

      The fact that one part(four hours) don't fit well along with the sum(six hours), is of less meaning to me.

      I still think the word of this quote. And it let me remind me of a good example of being prepared in any and all situations, and having the right tools ready for what task I may be doing.

      Now Mr. Lincoln could have said the something along this insted_:

      "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 10-minutes sharpening the axe." Abraham Lincoln

      The meaning is still the same, even if you take out the falsely from it(the four hours punch).
      The number of hours have changed. But if you don't have any whetstone in your arsenal, you're losing precious time trying to chop down a tree, with a bad axe.
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      • Profile picture of the author adamv
        Action is huge. It's not everything but it's a stumbling block for a lot of people. Too many people spend the vast majority of their time looking for the next big thing and the "easy button".

        They buy one course after another and even read some of them but fail to implement any of the things that they've learned. Once they finish reading the latest ebook they may take a little action and then get distracted again by some new product launch.

        Of course failing to take action is not the only thing keeping people from being successful. In any equation, if you take a piece out, the equation doesn't work any more. But taking action is a very large piece of the puzzle.
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        • Profile picture of the author JohnB23
          I think action is very difficult (esp if you live in a big congested city).

          -If you're doing this after work, you come home at 5 or 6, and what do you face? American Idol blaring, a million and one internet sites vying for your attention, mainstream media, etc.

          Focused action is an asset in todays world. It takes effort to focus on something (or you can be distracted Simon Cowell or celebrity gossip on the 7:30 pm celebrity news shows). Most people spin their wheels.

          -With the ax metaphor and IM, either people spend all their time sharpening their ebook (product) axe, or they try to chop down the tree after having a 120 page ebook axe in their hands for 2 months.

          A good Gary Halbert quote that I always keep in mind, "More happens through movement than through meditation." Quite true. No one has ever meditated their way to success. That's one of the dangers in these promotions that deal with the mind, law of success, law of attraction, the secret. You cant just meditate and think your way to success.

          There's also a Tony Robbins example that I don't remember verbatim, but it went something like..(someone comes to Tony with a problem. Tony asks, "well what have you tried?" The person says, "I've tried everything".)

          "Everything?!?!"

          "How many things have you tried? The actual number."

          And the person goes, "well, maybe 5". LOL.

          -Also taking the right action. Reading a course or book *all the way through*. Not through shorthand. Or abbreviation that's so common in this compressioned, short attention span environment that we live in. I bet the number of people who have gone all the way through a 3 or 5 day seminar on marketing or IM is very small (maybe 10-20%). Force yourself to listen all the way through, then take action.
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