Quotes About Action

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." —Alan Lakein

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should.

When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.

what's the ONE Thing I can do to ensure I hit my goals this week such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should. As

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing. Sometimes

Extraordinary results demand that you set a priority and act on it. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

The Focusing Question. Mark Twain agreed with Carnegie and described it this way: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.

Answers come in three categories: doable, stretch, and possibility.

The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: "What's the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one. If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life. You don't have to seek out success. Harness the power of selected discipline to build the right habit, and extraordinary results will find you.

But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas all ran away and hid from one little Did." —Shel Silverstein

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." —Arnold H. Glasow

Whenever the outcome absolutely matters, I ask it. I ask it when I wake up and start my day. I ask it when I get to work, and again when I get home. What's the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Thinking informs actions and actions determine outcomes.

Obviously, you can drive yourself nuts analyzing every little aspect of everything you might do. I don't do that, and you shouldn't either. Start with the big stuff and see where it takes you.

Every minute of every day, the question is never will we be doing something, but rather what that something is we'll be doing.

Sometimes what we do doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. And when it does, what we do defines our life more than anything else. In

The first step is to understand the concept of the ONE Thing, then to believe that it can make a difference in your life. If you don't understand and believe, you won't take action.

Start each day by asking, "What's the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?" When you do this, your direction will become clear.

If I want it, what must happen for me to get it?

are no excuses, no hiding places, and no "victim behavior." Goal pursuit, for