Know why people don't take action - Know why they should take action - Know that noting works except they are worked - Know that good things only happen when planned - be motivated to take action

1. What is your next line of
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2. • After this class, group members should
• - Know why people don't take action
• - Know why they should take action
• - Know that noting works except they are worked
• - Know that good things only happen when planned
• - be motivated to take action

3. • Let us Start with the first law of motion.

4. • *Newton's First Law of motion* states that an
object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a
straight line unless acted upon by an external force.

5. • It means noting happens until they are made to
happen.
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• If you don't take action on what pertains to you,
who will?

6. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*

7. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 1) *procrastination*:the action of delaying or
postponing something. Do it now!!! Start with the
toughest.
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8. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
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• 2) *Indecision* : the inability to make a decision
quickly. Decide on what you want out of life.

9. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 3) *Doubt*: a feeling of uncertainty or lack of
conviction. Dare your doubt
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• 4) *learned helplessness*: a condition in which

10. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness,
arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure
to succeed. It is thought to be one of the
underlying causes of depression. Never resign to
fate

11. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 5) *Fear of unknown(Xenophobia)*: is the irrational
sensation of fear experienced about a person or a
group of persons as well as situations that are
perceived as strange or foreign. Fear fears action.
Take calculate risk. it is more dangerous not to take
action than to take it.
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12. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 6) *Conflict of Idea* : having ideas that are in
conflict or disagreement; not compatible leading to
confusion. Act on one idea at a time

13. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 7) *Lack of priority*: having no first concern. Place
your priority
• * urgent and important
• * Urgent and not Important
• * Not urgent but important
• * Not urgent and not important.
• *The law of enforced efficiency* says that, “There
is never enough time to do everything, but there is
always enough time to do the most important
thing.”

14. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 8) *Laziness* : the quality of being unwilling to
work or use energy; idleness.
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15. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
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• 9) *Avoidance of pain of discipline for pleasure of
now*
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16. *10 Reasons why we don't take
action*
• 10) *Priotizing surviver over desire*

17. • *why you need to take action*
• - Time waits for no man
• - Bills keep pilling & needs keep rising
• - You will become committed
• - You will receive help
• - You will learn from your mistakes
• - Result become obvious
• - You overcome fear
• - it helps you develop new skills
• - it helps you build confidence
• - You gain respect by taking action
• - it increases satisfaction

18. *Few suggestions on "taking
action*"

19. 1) *Set goals*
• Without goals, success is impossible. Success is the
achievement of goals.
• * Set life time goals
• * set 10 year goals
• * set 5 year goals
• * set annual goals
• * set monthly goals
• * set Weekly goals
• * set daily goals
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• Set goal on your finance, family, faith, business, Career,
health, Academics etc.

20. 1) *Set goals*
• I remember the story in the book, Success, The Glenn Bland
• Method. Glen Bland referred to a research that was carried out at Yale
University between 1948 and 1973. They had passed some copies of a
• questionnaire around to all the graduating students in 1948 in Yale
• University. They asked them about their plans for the future. It was
• discovered that only three per cent of all the graduating students had
• definite goals. They had developed clear plans and envisaged the
• potential problems they could have and had proffered possible solutions
• to them. So, the future was clearly laid out for them. Then, you had
• another 10 per cent who had clear ideas about the goals they wanted to
• achieve but had no plans written down. The other 87 per cent were
• not sure of what the future held for them.Twenty-five years later, the
researchers went after every one of those students who had graduated in 1948.
They discovered that the three per cent that had clear goals and detailed plans
about what they wanted to achieve had achieved 100 times more than the 10
per cent that had goals but did not write them down.

21. 1) *Set goals*
• If there are no goalposts on that field, it would not
matter the direction in which you kick the ball.
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• Goals guides your actions.
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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to
chart the course.

22. 2) Have action plans
• create action plan to achieve those goals.
• Goals without action is fantasy
• Anyone can write goals but not everyone design plans
to achieve them.
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• Plan means to decide on and make arrangements for
something in advance.
• Only bad things happen on their own, good things are
planned.
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• To build an edifice you need plan, to build destiny you
need to plan.

23. *3) Keep scratching, don't give
up*
• This is better illustrated using the story I read in Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Three feet from gold.
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• Harby’s uncle had gold fever, so he staked his claim and started digging. After a lot of hard work, the uncle found a vein of ore, so he covered up his find and
returned home to raise the money for the machinery that he would need to bring the ore to the surface.
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• They raised the money and Darby travelled with his uncle back to the site to make their fortune.
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• Things started well and before long, they had enough to clear their debts. They were excited, everything from here on would be profit and things were looking
good.
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• Then the supply of gold stopped. The vein of ore had disappeared.
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• They kept on digging, but found nothing.
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• After a while, they quit in frustration and sold their machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars.
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• After they went home in disappointment, the astute junk man called in a mining engineer who checked the mine and that there was a vein of gold just three

24. • *What is your next line of action?*