What is the essential ingredient in the formula for success? Taking action. All of your goals, desires, and objectives are just worthless wishes unless you take action toward their acheivement.

What a simple concept! It is, though, where most of us fall down on the trail. We’ve done all the right things — set our goals, made our plans, anticipated the outcomes — but then we just sit around and wait for the results. Care to guess what results you’re going to reap from those actions? Exactly.

So, in your march toward your own peak performance, you have to do one very important thing: ACT! Use the power that sets you as a human apart from the animals and do something that you’ve thought about in advance. Conscious thought and the ability to plan your actions in advance is one very important thing that distinguishes us from the animal world.

So you know you need to take some kind of action toward accomplishing your outcome. But why don’t you? The answer’s very simple, and we’ll examine it in our next segment.