Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 1590770587
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Robert Ringer's books have created a revolution in the self-development genre and shown millions the way to personal and professional achievement. Filled with humorous and enriching anecdotes Action!, exhorts the reader when you close the book, get up out of your chair and take action now. Action is life, and life is meant to be lived.
this very important point, following are three other recent examples of similar incidents I encountered. 1. I called AT&T (the worst service company in the Milky Way Galaxy) to have the name on one of my phone accounts switched. The first woman I spoke to was testy, and insisted that I would have to sign a form, have it notarized, and send it back. On my second call, I spoke with an operator who made the change over the phone in about a minute. (Do these representatives ever speak to one
Garfunkel fame. Simon had just come out with a new album based on the tribal sounds of Africa. The interviewer asked Simon how he felt about the pounding he had been taking from critics in the industry whose position was that “anybody could have taken existing African sounds and packaged them into an album.” His bland response to the interviewer’s question was, “Maybe it’s true that anyone could have done it, but I did it.” On the surface, Simon’s retort seemed to be rather unremarkable, but it
you’re starting from a correct premise when taking action. When is the person lying, and when is he telling the truth? Again, it’s too much to have to think about, too much extra work to have to fit into your already time-scarce schedule. When someone misleads you—whether it be through exaggeration, omission, or by some other means—the result is likely to be harmful, either to you or to others. At a minimum, you may end up with egg on your face for making bad decisions based on false
possess. People who suffer from affectation to an extreme have lost their identities. They are, in fact, the most imprisoned people on earth. While they feign dignity, it is a trait that, in reality, they totally lack. Affectation stems from an immature desire to “keep up with the Joneses,” and having lived in the suburbs of many cities throughout the world, I can assure you that this desire is systemic in the human race. Affectation almost always metastasizes into an unhealthy attachment to
fascinating, it may even add value to my life, but whether it warrants an investment of my time is the overriding issue. Which points to the conclusion that the quickest way to finish a project is to simply cross it off your “to do” list. Does that sound like a vote for inaction? Not at all. On the contrary, it’s a vote to take action—action that focuses on the highest-priority project in your life at any given time. This means refusing to allow yourself to become a slave to noncrucial matters.