There are 3 lessons I have learned from people who refuse to TAN aka Take Action Now. A smart entrepreneur can learn something new every day if she tries. There are some people who take action now and get things done. There are others who refuse to take action now and they never get things done. No matter which one you are, there are lessons to be learned.
Continue reading →It is magnificent to take action now and learn how to work with things you do not like
Continue reading →It is magnificent to take action now and really live your dream. January of each year is full of talk about dreams. Between the start of the new year and the Martin Luther King holiday, there seems to be talk of nothing but dreams. In a way, this is a good thing. In another way, it is sad. The reason for the sadness is that a dream has almost no worth if a person does not take action to make the dream come true.
When you have a dream it is important to work, to do something to make the dream come true. Faith without work is dead and no one wants to be the owner of a dead dream. At the same time, when you take action on your dream, make sure the action is real and that you are not sabotaging your dream without realizing it. For example, recently I was speaking with a group of entrepreneurs about going from dreams to reality. The discussion revolved around the idea of writing checks for some dream amount the entrepreneur would earn in the future. The filled-in checks were to be placed where they could be seen each day. This visual cue was thought to be a source of motivation.
Continue reading →It is important to take action now to improve your intellect. The ability to reason and understand things objectively even when things are abstract is something that is of great value. When you improve your intellectual abilities, you make yourself more valuable, you become a thing to be treasured.
Continue reading →Stop complaining and start making the changes you want to see.
Today is a terrific day to ask, what was the last thing you complained about, the thing that really made you upset that was going on in the world? What did you do about it? My oldest daughter has had several interesting nicknames over the years. When she was a teenager, I called her Teenie Bopper. When she started attending Spelman College, I called her Spelie. Now, she has earned a new nickname, TaxPayer.
Euphoria has been an activist for almost all her life. When she was three years old, she cried because she didn’t like a decision I made. She wanted me to change my mind. I told her that crying wouldn’t work. I told her that if she wanted to change my mind, she had to make a cogent argument. Well, Euphoria Davis has been making cogent arguments in order to get her way ever since. Her Twitter profile lets you know that she is ready for the world.
Continue reading →It is impossible to take action now and get things done if you do not have the right inspiration. Take time today to find what inspires you to get up and go and use it to get things done.
Continue reading →Keep dreaming your big, bold and audacious dreams but never forget that if you can dream them, you can achieve them. All my friends and family members are dreamers. I surround myself with people who dream big dreams and then try to live even bigger. Dreams are a wonderful treasure. They are also scary. But the best thing about your dreams is that since they are yours they are always within reach. So often people dream big, bold, and audacious things and then they get scared. They get scared that the dream is too big for them to achieve. They get scared that they aren’t smart enough to achieve the dream. They get scared that the dream is too far off to ever reach. While all these fears are real to the person feeling them, there is still reason for hope.
Continue reading →Take action now and get things done, because there is nothing to be gained from waiting for a mysterious “Someday” to arrive. You dont get your way by accident, you get your way by getting up and making things happen. Reward comes when you take action now and work for what you want.
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