You Go Forward By Taking Steps

For progress to be made, you have to take steps. No one can make progress or advancements without making a move. If you want to get to a destination for example, there is a need for you to move from the point you are in order for you to get to the point you are going to. You may have a dream of what you want to achieve or an idea, but until you have taken a step towards its implementation, then you are not ready for progress. In order for a dream to be fulfilled, there is a need for you to take actions and steps. Remember that your mission will always require a motion to be actualized.

What a lot of people fail to understand is that the longer you stay without making a move or taking step, the farther you are from fulfilling your goal, which may ultimately lead to the obsoletion of the dream itself. Of course, everything that you want to do in life; an idea to execute, a dream to fulfil, or a goal to pursue, will definitely have a time frame that should be allocated to it. This means that if you delay taking actions, you will be surprised that it will lose potency in the long run, and may even become invalid. This is why actions should be taken quickly and timely.

Another thing to know is that the world is extremely very competitive and whether you like it or not, by reason of your existence, you are already part of the competition. In view of this, you should also know that the same idea that strikes to your mind may also be conceived by someone else. And if you delay to take steps on your own, someone else may have already started doing what you should have done. The truth is, there is a kind of control and inexplicable "grace" the normally accompanies someone by doing something on time and being an "early bird." If you delay to take an action on a business idea for example, and someone else does that first, they would have seized the entire market before you.

Some years back, I was having a discussion with a friend and he kept saying what he wants to start as a business. He kept saying it but no action was taken about it. He forgot that it is only action that substantiates ideas. After months of nursing the idea in his mind without taking step, something happened. We were going out together one day, just driving pass a road, and to his surprise, we saw someone that was already doing exactly the same thing he always dreamt about. He delayed taking actions on his own, thinking that time will wait for him. Well, just as life itself, time will wait for one one. It is either you take prompt action or you watch time roll pass you.

Success does not happen by professing it, neither does it happen by dreaming it, it only happens by taking the right action and doing it rightly. Imagine a farmer who keeps talking and thinking about harvest without taking a single step to sow any seed, how will he get harvest? It is only when he takes time to plant his seeds the right way and at the right time, then observe all necessary and required farm activities, then he will be sure of getting harvests. Without taking the action of planting, there will be no result of harvesting.

When you are making plans of what to do, you have to also make plans of how to get started. This is because your dreams will not actualize itself, neither will your ideas fulfill themselves. If you must achieve what you desire, then you have to take the required actions towards it. One of the things that I have learnt in life is that what you get out of life (your result and output) is a direct function of your input in life. That is, if you want outstanding result, then you need to put in outstanding efforts. You cannot do nothing and expect success. Success requires responsibility which you need to take in order to achieve your breakthrough.

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