Action is the Driving Force that Produces Results

Are the most successful people the ones who had the most knowledge;
were they more intelligent or was it because they were better
academically? We all know that this is not true. If this were true,
everyone from MENSA and anyone that obtains a PHD would be a
multimillionaire.

Think about this. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Steven
Spielberg, Larry Ellison, Soichiro Honda and Richard Branson, have
one thing in common, all of them do not have a college degree.

Yet they have built billion dollar empires run by extremely well
qualified managers and professionals, many of them possessing
Harvard MBAs.

This is still true today. Many intelligent, well-educated people
who have MBAs and PhDs do not accomplish much although they may
have the intelligence and knowledge.

The irony is that many people who do extremely well academically
usually end up working for those who were average performers in
school.

On the other hand, there are many millionaires and business owners
who dropped out of college, never attending university only to find
themselves producing phenomenal results.

Why is this so? The answer lies in the simple fact that these
individuals took more action than compared to others. More often
than not, these successful individuals made up their mind thinking
that they had nothing to lose.so they take action, massive action
to make up for it.

While book knowledge and tertiary education are extremely valuable
assets, too much of it can become a liability.

When people have excess knowledge, they spend all their time
analyzing thinking WHY 'something cannot be done; so much so that
it paralyses them from taking any form of action.

For those highly qualified academically, they tend to be more risk
averse. These people tend to take less action.

Knowledge, intelligence and capability are not 'power'. They are
only potential forms of power. Only when action is taken do these
acquired resources realize their potential.

Action is the driving force that makes things happen. When
consistent action is taken towards a specific outcome, results will
definitely be produced.

We either get the results we want (success), or we get the results
we don't want (feedback). By changing our strategy and consistently
taking even more action, we will eventually get the results we want.

Success is defined by how much action we take and not just by how
much knowledge and capability we have. Knowledge can be learnt and
capability can be acquired.

Taking massive action is the key to unleashing personal power.
People who combine knowledge with massive action become unstoppable
in achieving any goal.