Plan To Take Action On Plans

One of the big problems my wife and I have is that we make a lot of plans. We write the plans down. We detail them out, but then we never make a plan to take action on the plans.  We write up business plans, personal plans and all sorts of plans.  Next we file the plans away before any action is taken on them.

Does this sound like you?  Are you forever planning to do things and never doing them.  If so, the biggest plan you can make is to plan to take action on one of your plans. 

For those who just jump in and do things, this may not make sense. Their answer is to simply take action.  Taking action is scary.  We live live on two principles, pain and pleasure. What is painful we avoid, what is pleasurable we do. 

Pain and pleasure fall into two categories, knows and unknowns.  If something is known to us we are comfortable with it and it is pleasure. If something is unknown, it makes us uncomfortable and it is therefor pain. 

Pain and pleasure, knowns and unknowns.  I have trouble getting internet marketing going. PAIN.  IM is an unknown.  Yes, I know the details but I lack the experience, unknowns.  It is more difficult to try to accomplish an unknown than a known.  Our subconscious gets in the way.

The answer is to "Eat an elephant one bit at a time".  What I mean is to break any new thing down into small chunks and work on a single "bite" at a time.  A project can be overwhelming, but writing two paragraphs is fairly easy. Completing a complex project may be an unknown, but writing a couple paragraphs is a known. We have written a few sentences in the past, we can do that. 

Guess what the project in internet marketing is usually just a  bunch of paragraphs arranged into a finished product.  So, a paragraph here and a page there and the "elephant" (project) gets eaten (written) one bite (paragraph) at a time. 

Join me here. Plan to make a plan to work on your plans.  Decide you can achieve new and unknown things as you take on just one small aspect of them at a time. 

MY $10,000 challenge in 90 days is ending April 17.  That is not a lot of time and yet it is more than enough time to achieve even more.  It all depends on taking action on plans.  As taking action continues is becomes a know and a pleasure rather than the pain of an unknown.