The idea of taking action in our lives can be really appealing — we feel behind on so many things, and there are things we want to change (like habits), but it can all feel daunting.
So, how do we get better at taking action?
In this short guide, I’ll share some best practices to improving this crucial life skill.
The practices are simple, but take some dedicated focus. If you’d like to get better at this skill, I highly recommend devoting yourself to this for a month or two and seeing if you can get some improvement.
Simple Actions
The key is to focus on the simplest actions possible. When people take on all the actions in their lives, they usually do one (or both) of these:
- Think about all of the actions they need to take, get overwhelmed, and then shut down; or
- Focus on one complicated task, with lots of decisions, and get overwhelmed and shut down.
These are understandable, but I hope you can see that this becomes a bit of a trap. We can’t take action if we’re getting stuck in these overwhelming complexities.
So the trick is to focus on one action at a time, and as simple a version of that action as possible.
If you need to do a complicated task that has 10 different decisions, can you focus on just the first step? Or just one decision at a time? For decisions, practice choosing from the heart without overthinking it — just choose simply, and trust yourself.
One small task at a time. This is the key!
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