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How to Create a Massive Action Plan
But massive action is the fuel that powers the engine that we call life.
Without taking massive action, we couldn’t realize our goals – we’d be
stuck in neutral, unable to get from Point A to Point B.
Why?
This is partly attributed to our poor habits, but there’s far more
involved. Most us don’t set goals the right way to begin with. We have
some abstract notion of what we want in our minds, but it lacks
specifics along with a concrete plan.
From that class, only 3% had answered yes to that question. Just 3%
had set specific goals with a plan towards their attainment – they had
created a massive action plan to achieve their goals. 13% of the class
had goals but they lacked plans to achieve them. 84% of the class had
set no goals at all.
Ten years later it was determined that the 13% of the class that had
goals but lacked plans were making twice as much money as the 84%
that had set no goals at all. But, the 3% of the class that had set goals
with plans for their achievement were making 10 times as much as
the other 97% of the class.
From Napoleon Hill to Jim Rohn and beyond, taking massive action is
a fundamental part of any success in goal achievement.
By setting goals without creating a plan towards their attainment,
we’re really just hoping and wishing that we’ll achieve something
without actually moving towards it.
If you want to achieve your goals, set them the right way and also
create a massive action plan to achieve them.
Before the plane takes off, it sets a flight plan. That flight plan details
the direction of travel, general speed, and general altitude. However,
the plan isn’t specific about the exact altitude, direction, and speed at
every moment of that flight.
Why?
The plane, like us, might encounter some obstacles along the way to
reaching its goal. For example, there might be severe pockets of
turbulence at 32,000 feet, forcing the plane to climb up higher to
38,000 feet in an effort to evade that rough patch.
Similarly, you need a massive action plan to achieve your goals. You
can’t just set goals with the hopes of achieving them at some point in
your life.
If you’re serious about the goals, then you absolutely must create a
massive action plan, while constantly monitoring and adjusting your
approach where necessary until you succeed.
Without setting specific goals and visualizing them, the mind can only
desire the goal in the abstract. For example, we can’t say we want to
be rich in two years or have lots of money and a nicer car. We have to
be highly specific and visualize those goals.
And your goals must also be time-based. You have to have an exact
date for when you want to achieve them. This helps to add
perspective to your goals. Without dates, even if our goals are
specific, we’re just shooting in the dark.
Milestones will give you intended markers or points that you’ll want
to hit and judge your progress from during the pursuit of your goals.
To create them, you’ll need your specific, time-based goals from step
one.
For example, to pay off $12,000 of debt in one year, you’ll need to find
ways to save, cut expenses, and pay down $1,000 of debt per month.
The milestones will give you a monthly target that you can then
create your massive action plans around. They also offer a
measurable metric to help you determine just how well you’re doing.
Step 3: Create a Weekly Massive Action
Plan
Now that you have some monthly milestones, you have to create a
weekly massive action plan. What’s your target for this week? What
can you do this week to help move you closer to your goals?
If your one-year goal is to start your own business and you decided
that you need to save at least six months of expenses so that you can
quit your full time job, and you created some monthly milestones,
what could you do this week to achieve your monthly milestone?
If you have $3,000 of expenses per month and you needed to save
$18,000 in the coming 12 months, that comes to $1500 per month.
How could you come up with an extra $1500 this month? What
expenses can be cut? Where could you save or earn some extra cash?
The more efficient you can be with your time, the more likely you’re
going to be to accomplish your goals. To do this, you have to have
some powerful reasons on why you want to achieve those goals.
You also have to eliminate bad habits from the mix. Our habits can
consume us; they can work to hinder us or help us. But, more
importantly, it’s the bad habits that tend to hold us back. If your bad
habits are consuming you, work on developing some keystone habits
to help eliminate the bad ones from your life.
There are so many things that can get in the way of creating a
massive action plan and tirelessly pursuing our goals. If you don’t
work to eliminate the bad and promote the good, you’ll find yourself
hitting one roadblock after another.
Find a metric that you can track on a daily basis and track it. Use a
spreadsheet, a notebook, your smartphone, a smartwatch, or anything
else at your disposal. Just do something.
As you reach for your milestones, gauge your weekly and monthly
performance, you’ll see just how much closer or further away you’re
getting from your goals. Use that information to your benefit by
adjusting your approach where necessary.
When we face failure, it’s easy to throw our hands up in the air in
silent resignation. But the only thing that separates successful people
from failures in life is their utter refusal to give up.
Failure is a part of life. We will all fail in life more times than we
would like to admit. But, failure is also a steppingstone to success.
Without failure, we couldn’t achieve the lofty successes that we plan
on.
Everything in life happens for a reason. I’ve failed so many time and
each time hurt more than the time before it. But, as long as we don’t
let those failures completely deaden our spirit, then they can be used
as an experience to learn, grow, mature, and succeed in the future.
If you’ve failed while pursuing your goals, come up with some ways
you can overcome that failure and incorporate it into your massive
action plan. Create a massive action plan that helps you account for
what to do in the face of failure.