What Prevents Action?

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“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.”

— G.K. Nielson

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What do you think when you see an individual succeeding and you aren't? Do you know think God created some people from heaven automatically to succeed? We all are equal to God and He created us the same way. We are left to take actions for our future.

The difference between an ordinary man and an extraordinary man is the "Extra". This means if you want to succeed, you must take actions and putting in extra effort.

There have been this challenge on Hive going on for a while titled "What prevents action?" in the EcoTrain community. I read few entries and I totally agreed with all they say. I read an entry yesterday about this challenge and I was able to pick something from the post which also stands out to me.

Everyone who wants to succeed must work for it. It's impossible to stay idle and expect good results to show forth. To get a Job, there are actions you must take- going out with your certificate in search of one, attending the scheduled interview and waiting to be employed. Even if someone is recommending you to a Job, you are still required to step out for an interview. You have taken an action.

Not taking an action automatically means no result. You are feeling hungry and everything you needed is available in your room. All you need to do is to get up, switch on the gas and prepare whatever you are craving for. No one would come help you except you have someone who is willing to help you prepare the meal.

With all being said, there are still factors hindering taking actions- some things are preventing action in our lives and it is until we get hold of them and overcome them, we will never get our result.

The first prevention is FEAR. Fear prevents action. According to the author of the post I read yesterday, she said and I quote "Fear can be a driving force that promotes inaction." I agree with this and hear what a motivational speaker said about fear;

.“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”

— Michel De Montaigne

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When we allow fear to prevent us from taking action, we will suffer. We would definitely expect bad result at the end.

What makes people fear? The truth about fear is that it would paint different scenarios in our head that causes us to fidget and lose courage of trying.

Fear of disappointment: Reason why we don't take action is the fear of disappointment. We already believed that we would definitely be disappointed where we need help and because of that, we refrain from taking actions. We decide to stay in our comfort zone and conclude there would be disappointment on our way and because of that, we miss doing the right thing that would take us to an higher level.

Fear of rejection and getting hurt: "I don't want any relationship", "I can't do it because I would definitely be rejected." Who told you that? You already confirmed that in your inner self and with that, you choose not to take actions. Many people are afraid of entering into a relationship because of what they have passed through in the past and so, they paint everything to be the same as the past forgetting that if you do not give it a try, you will always be caged in your own delusion.

Another one is fear of not having courage. Success is for the brave and courageous ones. You are to give a speech somewhere and because you lack courage, you give up. I am not left out in this because everyone have this fear in them and if we aren't bold enough to speak out, we will end up being caged and that automatically decrease our self esteem and we end up not taking actions.

The day I learnt that to stay out of the world of low self esteem and to be bold to face the crowd, we can actually practice that in our room. The person said he used to practice speaking to himself in his room. He will be the imaginary teacher and an imaginary student. He would record his voice and thereafter re-play it to listen to what he has said and that helped him.

I did that too for a while and I could see the improvement in my communication with people. I came to realize that fear can hold one back to do the right thing. Fear can be conquered if we decide to and no one would chase the fear in you. We are the one to do that.

To be continued...

Thanks for reading

|December 21, 2021|