Have you ever sat at your desk and began to think about all that was on your task list, all that is on your to-do list, your to-not-do list and wondered where to begin? “What do I outsource, what do I do first, who will understand what is delayed?”

Recently I was in a seminar where the Multi-Million dollar speaker, Hans Johnson made a statement that at first ruffled my ‘intellectual’ feathers but later created for me a laser-sharp focus in the way I run my business. He said, “Thinking can kill you! Procrastination, indecision, taking time to think about, consider, contemplate and re-evaluate could kill you! Stop thinking! Do something! Pick up the phone, get to work, if you make a mistake, forget about it, do something else, whatever you do take action!”

Action is the key and yet we live in a society where people hide behind their factual memorization of information and their regurgitation of academia until we are all so intoxicated on our knowledge that no one is accomplishing anything! Inaction is typically present when there is confusion and to take one good hard look at our nation we can see some root issues of why we might be where we are at today.

When is the last time you looked at a list of prospects if you are in sales and rather than trying to figure out who you wanted to call first, what you should say, how you should say it you just picked up the phone and began dialing it out? Imagine where your ratios would be if you just took action everyday for over an hour straight.

When is the last time you sat rehearsing and cursing and evaluating your thoughts if you are in copywriting or marketing and you just set aside all the thinking and began to type, or record or speak or do something to get you to your goal?

Action is the key. There’s a popular book out called BLINK and it teaches that the first thought we have is usually the right one, the first inclination we have usually is the right one- imagine if the first thing you set out to do each day you actually accomplished, would that fuel or frustrate the rest of your day? Imagine if just 10% of all college graduates actually took action to get in front of one prospective place to work each day – what kind of career could they land in their first year?

Stop thinking and start acting and even better, start tracking where the action is getting you!

The action of writing this article was a big step of faith for me and it was a big step towards no longer just ‘thinking’ about where I wanted to be in the next 5 years. You see, during the last 28 months I have worked at home for a direct marketing company in the health and wellness field. I have prospected, closed, trained and duplicated until I was blue in the face! I broke records, took a failing track record in my own business and created results that made my head spin- my goal was to be debt free and we are, my focus was to be the best and I did become that in a lot of aspects- however there has been a writer inside of me since I was 5 years old that was begging to come out. Remembering that it was my 3rd grade teacher who told my mother that I’d write one day for a living and rehearsing the hundreds of times I have heard that in over 20 years took me to a place of personal action on my own life.

Just last week I took a ‘on the side’ Copywriting business to the position of creating a real-live company for myself. I enrolled in the AWAI 6-figure copywriting course. Cutting my direct marketing hours down to just 4 hours per week to protect attrition and keep the income high I made a commitment, took action, committed to work on my writing and my skills 20 hours per week. And here I am, taking action, submitting an article to ETR for review.

Action hasn’t always been my normal mode of operation. Talking to people about what I might do someday, reading about what it might be like to take action one day and planning it all out for when I did finally take action has been a normal mode-of-operation for me for years.

Dreaming and contemplating and considering and processing. And then the speaker at the seminar hit me between the eyes. Take action! If you don’t take action it could kill you. It could kill your dreams, your future, your chances at really seeing what you could become.

Take action, and watch where you could end up in the next 30 days!

© Sandi Krakowski, 2007, all rights reserved

Sandi Krakowski is a woman that decided to break the rules in her own life when in 2003 she was diagnosed with a fatal health condition. Recovering 100% and leaving doctors baffled, she went from being over $ 500,000 in debt to a totally debt free lifestyle that she now works under 20 hours per week from the comfort of her radical space in her home office, many times on the grass behind her house where the birds hang out. She is passionate about helping others to live the life they want now, sharing her own personal experience of facing a life threatening disease in the face and conquering fear, debt and illness. She now operates a marketing and copywriting business that has taken everyday average people to a place of notoriety on the net with very little effort. Visit Sandi at: http://www.arealchangemarketing.com today!