WHICH IS BEST? 
I am writing this article because in the field of personal development, there is a battle. There are many opinions about the strategic thinking portion of success - Law of Attraction (The Secret), Positive Affirmations, reading books, attending webinars, praying and hoping. There are other opinions about taking action and the role of each in success. Before I get into this, I want to make sure we’re on the same page as to what I’m discussing. To me, The Law of Attraction (which The Secret – movie and book) addresses the concept that like attracts like. My understandings of positive affirmations are: when you speak out loud what you want to occur in your life, the goal is that those things come into existence. Webinars are seminars on the internet. Seminars are attended in person where we get motivational words from experts in the field. Hope and prayer (as I forgot about, but John Assaraf reminded me of) are also ways of strategic thinking. Hoping is having the emotions of wanting things to occur that aren’t currently. Prayer is speaking to our higher power. The doing are the action steps of making any business grow. This article will discuss both and their place in business. Taking action, as Robert Allen would say, is doing the 20% most important activities for getting a paycheck first and procrastinate the other 80% until a later time.
I think that all of the above strategic thinking steps – Law of Attraction, praying, hoping, positive affirmations, read positive books, listen to/attend seminars – are essential to success. Stephen R. Covey talks about in 7 Habits to Success that sharpening the saw is important in sawing. He tells a story to explain this principle. If we saw down a tree, in the middle of the process before the time we start and the time we finish, we will need to stop and sharpen the saw if we are going to finish the job. I believe that inspiration, as Jody Victor would say, is like showering; if you don’t do it every day, you start to stink. We all have been (and possibly are now) infected with the contagious disease called stinkin’ thinkin’. Inspiration, to me, helps me have the motivation to desire to change.
However, if there is not change in our lives, there will be no growth. If there is no growth, there is no success. On the same note, we can’t truly change if we stay in our minds. We have to get out there into the taking action steps. Of course, these steps are different for every business. In some businesses, the action steps are making calls and presentations. Other businesses include making promotions online and creating quality content for a website. What is YOUR action of your business?
Taking action MUST also happen if you are going to achieve success. If we don’t do what we need to do, the strategic thinking will help you be a positive thinker. Positive thinking is GREAT, but wouldn’t you rather be a POSITIVE DOER?! A positive doer loves life everyday because they (I’m not there…yet) are living and working their PASSION. Positive doers are able to travel when and where and how (my husband and I would like to travel many places in an RV – to read more, check out my other blog at: http://parkrvparks.blogspot.com ) they choose. Positive doers live where they want (in the house, neighborhood, country), drive the cars they want (whether it be a Lamborgini or a Honda) and spend their time how they want. Positive doers give abundantly to charities they want or, create a foundation of their own.
To review, there are many ways to use strategic thinking and learn about business and strategize. There are also many ways for taking action upon our business. To me, they are both essential parts of business. They are the yin and yang of any business. When we spend too much time acting, it’s time to think. When we think too much, it’s time to act. We need to focus on both parts in order to be a positive doer. The positive doer is what most of us want in life to be happy.
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