To take firm action, is to make a difference. Do you? A personal action plan is the brain’s way to profit, regardless of how you define profit, and even when it is a small bit at a time. Without an action plan you miss the opportunities for change that bring results. Actions, unlike mere words, actually rewire the brain in ways that allow people to achieve meaningful results.
For every mistake we make, there awaits an alternative course of action that opens itself to those who create a plan to take them past the roadblocks. To create a detailed action plan is the first step to eliminating wasted time and effort, and providing a purpose that begins to turn profit over in the mind first and then in reality, as a result. That’s how the human brain operates.
Surprisingly, the brain steers either a positive or a negative you, and its state is shaped and decided by your actions. When we stir up serotonin, and take responsibility for specific actions, we begin to eliminate cortisol, with its negative mental tendencies and build on the positive. To the brain, action is the great restorer, and a builder of confidence, whereas inaction is the brain’s trigger for fear and failure.
On this note, Ralph Waldo Emerson said…”Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” For Emerson, and for the human brain … thought is the blossom, language the bud, but action is the fruit behind it all.
Here are 10 key components for a smart skills action plan….
1. Target expected
2. Detailed action steps
3. Target completion dates
4. People and roles listed
5. Regular updates tracked and profits recorded
6. Performance measured
7. Adjustments made to improve profitable outcomes
8. Results shared and applied to enhance profit
9. Feedback sought
10. Where to from here considered as a way to build on profits
In her popular poem, The Difference Between Winning and Losing, Catherine states that to always have an excuse for your actions is to LOSE. The opposite is also true. To win and progress is to accept responsibility for the action plan you create. Henry Ford maintained that you cannot build assets on what you are going to do, because ideas without action are useless. What’s your plan and where’s the profit?
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