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Hurdling The Hesitation Habit
By Tom Venuto Have you ever read an article or a book about a new training program or a nutritional technique that sounded fantastic, and you had a good feeling that it would work, but you didn't immediately go do it? If you were able to put the idea into practice immediately, but instead you hesitated, then the odds are good that you probably put it off indefinitely and still haven't acted on that idea to this day. Studies of successful men and women have shown that there is a direct correlation between how fast you take action on a new idea or opportunity when you first hear it and how likely it is that you will ever take action on that idea at all. Successful people TAKE ACTION! They are testing things, they are doing things, they are in almost perpetual motion! Unsuccessful people are always “thinking about it” creating plans, preparing, getting things ready, or god forbid, waiting until “the time is right” such as “until new years,” “when finals are over,” "after vacation" or “after the kids go back to school.” Not only are successful people in motion, they initiate motion extremely fast once they begin thinking about it and setting their intentions. They take IMMEDIATE ACTION without hesitation! Successful people leave very little time gap between deciding to do something and doing it. Unsuccessful people hesitate and procrastinate and wait and wait and wait. Time is wasted and opportunities are lost. Here's an important question to consider: If you repeat an action over and over again, what do you develop? You develop a Habit. 95% of everything you do is habit, so the key to success is to develop good habits. Now here's the great value in always taking IMMEDIATE ACTION on a new idea: habit force works in both directions, positive or negative. You can develop the hesitation habit or you can develop the immediate action habit. It’s your choice. If you read about a good training, nutrition or motivational technique and you test it out quickly, what kind of habit are you going to develop? That's right - you're going to develop the IMMEDIATE ACTION HABIT! If you don't take action quickly, you develop the hesitation habit. I personally know bodybuilders and fitness competitors who have reached the pinnacle of success who have never taken a day of exercise science classes in their lives, they're not certified, they never attend seminars, they don't even read much! But they're the best in their sport simply because they have one important quality: They developed the immediate action habit. They frequently experiment with new methods, and when they hear or think of a new idea - they get in the gym and test it – fast! As a result, they have collected an enormous amount of feedback and learned more from direct experience in a few years than most people do in a lifetime. These champions don't sit around analyzing, planning and mulling everything over. They don't spend hours in chat rooms arguing about whether high intensity training is better than volume training. They don't waste time arguing with their buddies about whether low carbs are better than high carbs. And they surely don't waste their precious energy on criticizing the way others are doing it. They create a plan and then get into action immediately. If it works, they keep it, if not, they discard it and test something else. You will always accomplish more through action than you ever will through analysis. As Bodybuilding legend Dave Draper once said; "You
guys can argue all you want about training theories...I' If you hit the gym and try something new, or shuffle around your nutritional intake in a way you've never done before, only two things can happen: It will work or it won’t work. If it works, you'll want to do more of that. If it doesn’t work, you will learn something and gain more experience, so its really not a failure, it’s a valuable learning. But NOTHING will happen unless you take action. Many people avoid acting on new ideas because of the fear of failure. But you can't succeed without failing because if you're not failing, it means you're not doing anything - you're not taking enough action. The most successful people are actually the ones who “failed” the most and therefore, increased their learning rate. So the next time you read something useful; the next time you hear a good idea, the next time you make a decision, the next time you set an intention - TAKE ACTION ON IT IMMEDIATELY and start developing the FAST ACTION HABIT. Go for it. The universe loves speed, and he who hesitates is lost. - Tom Venuto
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