Leverage

[ArthurHung]

I'm pretty sure a good portion of people here have given at least some thought to the concept of leverage. Especially leveraging others. One of the most powerful things a person can do is to hone their ability to leverage themselves. If you're able to make every action you take line up with your own goals and vision, tremendous things can happen. An aspect of this that is sometimes neglected or often forgotten is that thought out leverages action. The physical action of selling a product is not nearly as powerful as the mental thought of appreciating desiring and loving selling products.

For us, as physical beings we've sort of trained ourselves to focus on physical reality and physical actions. And our lives become filled with busywork, clutter, struggle and half-hearted moves. If we change our focus to that of having powerful thoughts, which are in-line with our visions and desires, then that process by itself will manifest such joyous productive inspired action we'd likely surprise our physical selves. I feel like even the posting of this thread and drawing others attention to the powerful leverage of thought, is an inspired action, in line with my own goals and vision and already I can feel positive things coming from it. And really, it only took a short time and I loved every minute of it. I'm confident this will help whoever needs to read it.

[nhaasch]

If you're able to make every action you take line up with your own goals and vision, tremendous things can happen.

*big head nod*
It is one of the things I have focused on this year. Ultimately every action I take leads towards the two things I want most in my life. Now, some of the actions are a bit indirect, still my focus is intense. I fully intent to get what I want in life. And with this kind of focus, I will.

[ArthurHung]

Awesome man! Bravo. This is the kind of vibe, focus and excitement I truly love hearing about. I could listen to this all day. Feel free to keep us posted and share your experiences. And thanks so much for taking the time to respond.

[Orecle]

Originally Posted by ArthurHung

The physical action of selling a product is not nearly as powerful as the mental thought of appreciating desiring and loving selling products.

For us, as physical beings we've sort of trained ourselves to focus on physical reality and physical actions. And our lives become filled with busywork, clutter, struggle and half-hearted moves. If we change our focus to that of having powerful thoughts, which are in-line with our visions and desires, then that process by itself will manifest such joyous productive inspired action we'd likely surprise our physical selves..

I can appreciate your post.

However, action is where it is at, however you arrive at it. There are many people who think many things, but they lack action and therefore see no results. I do not deny the power of leverage, but results are the name of the game. And action is the only way to play the game.

There are people who read personal development books, set goals, manage their time, use leverage, work on their beleifs and self image and became successful. There are also people who just decided what they wanted, put one foot in front of the other daily until they became successful. Both got the same result through the principle of action. Not the same thinking process.

You can become successful without leverage or even much thinking. But you can never become successful without action. Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins and Dan Kennedy mention meeting people who were not smart, who became successful by taking massive action which produced both wins and losses and because they did so much, the success was inevitable. They also mention that most people who use self help turn positivity into wishing. Steve even has an article on this called Self help Junkie (changed my life)

We all know many self help junkies who have a mountain of techniques and yet do nothing. We also know people who are not terribly smart, but they put 1 foot infront of the other and in a few years, become successful.

I disagree with your statement that appreciating, desiring loving sales is more powerful than physical action.

Thats like saying driving a simulated arcade car game is more powerful than driving a real car.

Nothing beats action. Why?
To qoute Tony Robbins "Good judgement come from experience, experience usually the result of bad judgement, bad judgement comes from action.

Success is a trial and error game. Think of any skill you mastered as a child. you learnt and improved through repetitive action. This is the only way we improve

Desiring to run a marathon is not as powerful as actually doing one whether you use levarage or any other tecniques. NLP has a quote 'The map is not the territory' No matter how positively you visuallised something in your head, it is never the same when you actually take action.

If Tony Robbins met Bill Gates, who do you think would be learning from who.

Tony Robbins hammers home the fact that the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful is that ' while others are still talking and thinking, the successful get them selves to take action' He says if your learning leads to thinking, you become a fool.

Dan Kennedy hammers this point as well. He says he became a writer by just surrendering to the habit of just doing it, 1 hr minimum daily. Inbcluding the day his father died. Dan also mentions the contrast between Napoleon Hill and W.clement stone. napoleon hill wrote think and grow rich, W clement stone was inspired by Hill. Stone figures out a sales system to made him the richest man in America, Nap hill ends up broke and being rescued by Stone and worked for him till he retired. Hill never figured out a system to turn his philosophy into mega bucks. Stone did

The same with Tony Robbins. He studied NLP along with many others. He permanently took the most massive action and became the most famous motivational speaker.

I have male friends who desire to be able to talk to women so much, that they spend hours on the internet. But they never take action. I also know guys who have always just asked out women, without thinking about it. They ask out women, some say yes, some say no. Difference is the 1st guys get dates once in a blue moon, while the other guys have dates every week.

You see most things dont require much thought, success is usually just repetitive action x 1000000. The person who becomes a millionaire doesnt need different thoughts for every single sale. Most of the time we just repeat yesterdays successful procedure, today. The next step is usually obvious.

The purpose of leverage is to get yourself to take action, when you dont feel passionate. This is a valuable tool to take action, as is vision boards, knowing values,time management, etc. Its just one tool to the purpose of getting yourself to take action, which is the only route to success

The reason I am passionate about this is I got into the trap of thinking about thinking, instead of focusing on my result and taking action in the next logical step. I became so obsessed about different PD techniques, I tried to use them on simple minute goals everyone else would have just taken action on.

[ArthurHung]

First off, thank you so much for your awesome reply. Second, I love all methods and variety in life. Thirdly, I intend to make it clear that by focusing on the benefits of thought I'm not suggesting or detracting from the power of action. In this case, to love one does not mean I hate the other.

When someone loves something and thinks about it and focuses on it and chooses thoughts that are positive about it, they end up doing that or actions relating to that all the time.

When a child loves golf, they practice and look for opportunities to do it, and make friends with common ground that also love golf, and all the actions they take come from their awesome thoughts about golf. Tiger Woods thoughts are all about golf, or athletics or sports or whatever (when I say all, I'm exaggerating).

When my girlfriend loves dancing and thinks about dancing she's always talking to me about dancing. Over and over, until I or someone else, takes her out dancing. Her words and actions are all about dancing. But none of those words and actions occur without a thought first. Society in the past, has often focused on action so much that they have forgotten that choosing good thoughts that are inline with their goals first is key. My initial post, is intended specifically to highlight, remind, and bring back people's attention to thought. If it suits you, to talk mainly, about action and to attempt to negate others who focus on thought, then by all means, continue. For myself, I know what I post has great value for the world. And I love when people recognize and appreciate it. Like I recognize and appreciate you.

Keep rockin' it man.

[Orecle]

Originally Posted by ArthurHung

First off, thank you so much for your awesome reply. Second, I love all methods and variety in life. Thirdly, I intend to make it clear that by focusing on the benefits of thought I'm not suggesting or detracting from the power of action. In this case, to love one does not mean I hate the other.
When someone loves something and thinks about it and focuses on it and chooses thoughts that are positive about it, they end up doing that or actions relating to that all the time.

The problem is life and success is going to often require things that are necessary but unloved and unenjoyable. Hence why PD teachers put a massive emphasis on Self-discipline including Steve

Originally Posted by ArthurHung

When a child loves golf, they practice and look for opportunities to do it, and make friends with common ground that also love golf, and all the actions they take come from their awesome thoughts about golf. Tiger Woods thoughts are all about golf, or athletics or sports or whatever (when I say all, I'm exaggerating).

When my girlfriend loves dancing and thinks about dancing she's always talking to me about dancing. Over and over, until I or someone else, takes her out dancing. Her words and actions are all about dancing. But none of those words and actions occur without a thought first. Society in the past, has often focused on action so much that they have forgotten that choosing good thoughts that are inline with their goals first is key. My initial post, is intended specifically to highlight, remind, and bring back people's attention to thought. If it suits you, to talk mainly, about action and to attempt to negate others who focus on thought, then by all means, continue. For myself, I know what I post has great value for the world. And I love when people recognize and appreciate it. Like I recognize and appreciate you.

Keep rockin' it man

The last part of your post sounds slighty defensive and a super subtle dig. No one is attempting to negate the power of thought. I highlighted the part of your post, inparticular the line of (thoughts being worth more than actions) I had issues with since you asked for comments. Or were you only looking for compliments?

I do not deny the power of thoughts. Thoughts always come before action. Even if its as simple as to obey, copy or imitate. Powerful thoughts is what separates us from animals. Powerful thoughts is what will take someone from mailroom to boardroom. My point, which you havent negated is alot of people think, but dont do. Anyone can be superman in their minds, but reality is a different ball game. Philsophers come a dime a dozen. The problem is a lot of theories dont always pan out in reality. In the thinking realm, you dont battle the environment. How many times have you heard " I didnt know it would be like that, until I tried it"

The examples you gave are of things people love to do. However the things that require the most powerful thoughts are the things we dont love to do. Is'nt that why we need leverage? Does your girlfriend need to get leverage and the best self-discipline tactics, to dance? probably not. But what about the overweight masses who hate to diet and exercise, or the entertained masses who dont want o discipline themselves and acheive untapped potential.

The 97% who buy PD books, read them, feel powerful, then do nothing with what they have read - (as highlighted by Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy and Steve.) are the ones I refer to. There are many more powerful thinkers than there are massive action takers. Even though a sports coach might have more powerful thoughts than the athlete, its the actions of the athlete people are inspired by. This is why people fall in and out of love with philosophy. Why do people put such a big emphasis on 'walking the talk' or 'integrity'? Because many think and talk a good game. This is evidenced in many forums on the internet.

People mostly seek personal development for the things they feel are a big mental challenge to get, and Mental tools are invaluable and a prerequisite. However people are paid for thoughts, that are demonstrated through action.

Originally Posted by ArthurHung

Society in the past, has often focused on action so much that they have forgotten that choosing good thoughts that are inline with their goals first is key. My initial post, is intended specifically to highlight, remind, and bring back people's attention to thought.

Can you give examples of this? Which time period do you refer to?

So if they forgot about thinking, how did they acheive their goals without it?
What was 'think and grow rich', and the whole positive mental attitude movement about? Isnt the purpose of formal education and the rise in the applicants, a reflection on our reliance on thinking? Is not the dramatic reliance on the internet or namely information from the internet, a testament to our love for the pursuit of knowledge?
Has not the western countries gravitated towards more mental jobs as opposed to the repetitive physical labour of the 50s, 60s and the 70s?

[flyer]

IMHO you are both right, but go on, please, I loved your posts

[ArthurHung]

Originally Posted by Orecle

The problem is life and success is going to often require things that are necessary but unloved and unenjoyable.

Life includes everything. Nothing is excluded from life. So personally, I prefer to let life express the struggle and unloving decisions through people who enjoy that belief, the one that says that that is what life and success requires. On the flipside, I enjoy letting life express joyous and loving tasks through people such as myself who enjoy holding the opposite belief. And so it's perfect. Life requires struggle from some and easy abundance from others. It might be of use to look into how to end up in one scenario or the other. Personally, examining and observing and researching people who are happy in everything they do and paying attention to people who seem to have mastered something that others haven't seems like a very prudent thing.

We can always choose whatever "crazy" belief we want at anytime. Throughout a person's life belief can change often.

Originally Posted by Orecle

I do not deny the power of thoughts. Thoughts always come before action.

Beautiful. I'm glad we agree. And I agree with your earlier post that action is also worthy of focus. So it seems, we're in complete agreement. It was wonderful connecting with you and this is a beautiful thread. Respect to you.

@flyer: Thanks for the feedback! I usually feel that one person commenting is at least 10 people reading and benefiting. And so I really appreciate you taking the time to write.

[Parthon]

It's BOTH!

Thoughts without action is mental masturbation. You will sit at home until you are wrinkled from thinking and not achieve a damn thing.

Action without thinking is misguided. You don't know what steps to take, you don't know which direction to follow. You are going at full speed in circles.

There needs to be, not a balance, but a flow, from thought into action. The right thought into the right action is multiplied together to give outstanding results. Those examples given are fantastic, but in all the cases not only did the successful person think about success, but they also took actions in line with those thoughts. Those that took action first, then used their results to hone their thoughts so their later actions would be more focussed and more in line with their goals.

Also: You guys are so inspiring! I've gotten so many insights just from reading this small amount. Harness the mind, and use it to drive your actions. It's both together that gives you the fuel to succeed. Now all you need is passion to guide you in the direction you truely want at heart.

Edit: As an edit, I've seen a trend in recent years to split the two, and either concentrate too much on thinking and not enough on doing, or too much on doing and not enough on thinking. Much of the modern jobs require processive thought, but very few people actually *think*. They take action, often, but without guidance. There's also an increasing number of people who want to think their way to success, but no real action behind it. They don't change their actions, but expect everything to fall into place. Perhaps the most effective book would be the bridge, the vehicle for turning focussed thought into progressive action. The books addressing this bridge that first come to mind are: Steve's book, "As a Man Thinketh", and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Have you read them?

[ArthurHung]

Awesome post man!

Originally Posted by Orecle

Thoughts always come before action.