Consistent Action is the Key to Success

Will Rogers once said, “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

When it comes to creating wealth, happiness and peace of mind in life and business the rubber pretty much meets the road with ACTION. The only way to achieve your dreams in life is by taking consistent action towards them.

But that’s the key. It’s about CONSISTENT action. It’s not about the scope or size or drama of the action you take to achieve your dreams it’s about the CONSISTENCY of the action. It’s not about the size of the actions it’s about how regularly you do them.

As you evaluate your actions towards reaching your dream don’t get hung up on the amount or degree of action, get hung up on the consistency of the action. This is the quintessential example of how taking “baby steps” will get you where you want to go.

Earlier I referred to the ancient Japanese saying that “A thousand mile journey begins with a single step.” It’s not about the big step. It’s not about the tenth step. Wealth, happiness and peace of mind are about the single step. 

The key is to ensure that you are moving in a consistent direction towards your dreams today. There is no need to worry about tomorrow or next week. Incredible levels of success in your life and business are about the little things you do each day. Creating the life and business of your dreams is about the single step.

The challenge of course is mustering up the self-discipline to take each next step on a consistent basis. Jim Rohn famously said, “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” To get where you want to go from wherever you are you must do the little things.

This is where things get a little tricky for us humans. If we could do the things we know we should be doing we wouldn’t be reading books like this one. We’d be out enjoying our amazing lives of wealth and prosperity.

But it isn’t that simple. In fact, that’s the essence of the Conundrum of Human Nature: Knowing what you need to do to create wealth and prosperity in your life and business and not doing it.

If only we could just do the little things we know we should do. If we could just make three new cold calls everyday we could earn that six figure salary. If we could just do the things we already know we need to do, life would be awesome!

The key is consistency. The actions don’t have to be huge they just have to be consistent.