Ever wonder why you don’t do the things you know you should do?

You know, like exercising when you said you would, or getting your taxes done early to avoid a last minute catastrophe, that kind of thing.

If you were asked to robotically program your actions in advance, you would certainly find your life improving rapidly.  This article explores one of the primary causes for not following though when the moment for action arrives.

Imagine a quality action film where the hero reaches a low point and then suddenly finds the strength to combat the enemy.  It doesn’t matter whether it’s a Rocky movie or Superman, they always find a way to put the hero in some sort of beat-up, seemingly hopeless situation before the final rise to heroic action.

Now imagine if you were watching such a movie, and instead of getting up to train for the big match, Rocky decides to have another cinnamon roll and look through catalogues.

How fast would you nix that flick?

At week six of putting on a pudgy pot belly and feeling sorry for himself, you’d probably lose interest in Rocky’s boxing career.

Excuses and procrastination don’t even sell a movie, so why would you want to live your actual life that way?

What kind of boring life do you get from trying to find the easy path of least resistance all the time?

What I’m getting at is one of the primary causes for not following through when the moment for action arrives.

I promise the point of this article is not to make you feel bad.

We all slip up, I’m just trying to give you some good intel for taking out one of the primary enemies in the battle against a boring life that doesn’t really reflect your true potential.

The reason you don’t take action when the moment comes is that your perspective has changed.  After reading this article, your perspective will be shifted slightly in the right direction.

If your work out buddy shows up at your door right now, you are more likely to go, simply because of the subtle perspective-shift I have initiated in your thinking through this article.

Your perspective is more on the side of, “Fight for the life you want!” and a little less on the side of, “What’s the point of trying hard?”

In fact, one of the most powerful changes you can make in your life starts with leveraging your mind to gather momentum and emotion-based power for taking action.

If you can expose yourself repeatedly to ideas and interactions that predispose you to the “Fight for the life you want” side of things, you won’t have to expend nearly as much energy on raw willpower when the moment of action arrives.

You will feel compelled to fight.  And what’s more, the fight will be enjoyable to you instead of wearing you down.  That’s because when you more fully shift your perspective to one side or the other of the internal debate, you reduce the inner turmoil that often holds you back when the moment comes to make a choice.

In other words, you often drain your energy without meaning to by holding some level of ongoing debate in your mind about whether taking action and pushing toward your goad is really worth it.

If you want to live a lukewarm life, floating along with everyone else who has no idea where they are going, be my guest.  If you like the life of choosing your actions based on what everyone else is doing, that crowed will welcome you into their circle of insecurity.

But if you really want to create a life that reflects your desires, adopt a mentality of certainty and end the internal civil war that is draining your energy.

Decide right now that you will postpone any further evaluation of whether pushing yourself toward your goal is worth it.

Postpone any further evaluation until you reach the goal.

Don’t let the momentary feeling of a cozy couch launch you into an internal debate about whether working out is really the way to go.

That is nothing but self-sabotage.

If that thought process arises, crush it instantly upon recognition and replace it with the thought, “My decision was already made.  I will not let this moment of weakness challenge my decision.”  Then take action.

Leave a comment below letting us know of your progress.

Dr. Todd Snyder