You’re finally taking action! Avoiding these common pitfalls can increase your chances of sticking to your new habits.
✓ Fear – fear of failure, of success, of making a fool out of themselves
✓ Taking Ineffectual Action – a lot of people believe that they are always working towards their goal, but really, they are busy but not productive
✓ Perfectionism – what looks like a positive personality trait of always wanting to do our very best can be our worst enemy
✓ Giving Away Power – some people wait for someone else to take the first step before they will
✓ Planning Without Doing – there are those people who get as far as making a massive action plan but fail to ever get beyond the planning
✓ Making Excuses – we all know people who have brilliant ideas but only make excuses as to why they never break out
✓ Having a Negative Mindset – we all have that little voice in our head that likes to pop up and tell us all the reasons why our plan for reaching our goal won’t work
Steps to Overcome Fear of Taking Massive Action
✓ Put your fear into perspective
✓ Just do it
✓ Continue doing it
✓ Don’t create self-doubt
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Meet David Monro-Jones, reality specialist, coach, IAPC&M COO and Head of Accreditation.
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Blog Posts by David Monro-Jones
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- Five Rules of Successful Habit Formation
- Unhappy at Work?
- The Take Action Checklist: Benefits of Taking Action
- Common Pitfalls in Taking Action and How to Overcome Them
- Steps to Take ‘Massive Action’.
- Five Questions – Clarify Your Strategic Thinking as a Coach
- Twelve Steps for Coaches to Strategically Balance Life and Work
- Four Tips to Make a Plan and Discuss a Difficult Topic with Your Partner
- Three Steps to Stop Over-thinking and Start Doing
- Benefits of Getting Organized
- Distractions that Drain Your Focus
- Five Ways to Increase Productivity at Home