There’s been affair bit of discussion going on in our household lately about achievement and how to go about ensuring aims goals and are reached.
My take on it is always – take immediate action and lots of it, while my husband Dale tends to think about things for a fair while, study and accumulate a great deal of knowledge and take action – eventually.
By his own admission, he procrastinates and often doesn’t get around to the required action. He does achieve goals nonetheless.
So the long conversations we had on the weekend were all about which is the right way to get to what you want and which is the fastest, simplest way.
My “take immediate action” method has brought me some pretty darned good successes, particularly in business, but it has also brought me a whole lot of grief because I used to jump in too quickly, unprepared and without enough relevant knowledge and often burn out along the way.
As I don’t know (or didn’t know back then) the meaning of give up or give in and just kept on going, this was often to the detriment of my health and it’s a lesson I still need to pay close attention to now.
Dale however, has plodded along taking in enormous amounts of information, putting things in place bit by bit and hasn’t ever burnt out in his whole life. No matter what life throws at him, he keeps moving on, never losing sight of his aims and has made great progress in the 20 + years I’ve known him.
So whose method is best?
We didn’t come to any conclusions on that as we agreed there’s merit in both our methods. He sometimes wishes he could muster up the same fiery, do it now, attack it like there’s no tomorrow type approach I favour and I sometimes wish I had his quieter, steadier qualities and I definitely wish I had his great health! He aspires to my discipline and focus and I watch with envy as he continues to gain enormous amounts of knowledge and remember it!
I’ve come to realise that there’s no right or wrong way to achieve goals, but the sad part I find about life and many people, is that they don’t even try to improve themselves and their situation and never achieve even a quarter of what they could if they applied themselves, stretched their thinking and took action, regularly and continually.
Fulfilment is the key to peace of mind and happiness and fulfilment can’t be acquired without learning and taking action. Wendy 🙂
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour. Henry David Thoreau
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