560 - Why "Take Massive Action" is Bad Advice
Tiny Leaps, Big Changes
Gregg Clunis
4.3 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at why "take massive action" is bad advice.
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Reasons this isn't good advice
- Unclear: What counts as "massive action""? Uncertainty leads to overwhelm and increased likelihood of inaction
- Invalidates tiny action: When your focus is on taking "massive action" it leads to discounting all the tiny things you can do now or the tiny things that you NEED to do. This also leads to inaction because it feels like what you CAN do isn't enough
- Massive action can lead to burn out and doesn't consider your current situation (empathy). It's a blanket statement that means nothing.
What to do instead
- Start your goal setting from a place of Empathy. Figure out what your constraints are BEFORE setting your goals
- Set a goal that is contextual to your situation
- Create a progressive action plan. Start with the tiniest thing you can do and progressively increase to larger actions
- Start immediately
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode we talk about why take massive action is actually terrible advice. |
| 0:08.0 | Get excited because this is tiny leaves. Biggie. This is where I share |
| 0:14.0 | Big Jee. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. |
| 0:22.0 | Big Changes where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life. |
| 0:28.0 | My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode I want to talk about something I hear all the time in the personal development space, |
| 0:37.8 | the entrepreneurship space, the fitness space, nutrition space, really any space where you are trying to accomplish something, you hear this advice and it's really kind of lazy advice. |
| 0:51.0 | It's not necessarily that it's bad. I know I put that in the title, but it's lazy. |
| 0:55.3 | This advice of taking massive action, it usually comes in the form of, okay, you want to do this thing. |
| 1:03.3 | First you have to identify your goal |
| 1:05.2 | and then take massive action. |
| 1:07.8 | And that's sort of where the advice ends |
| 1:10.9 | is just take massive action. |
| 1:13.0 | So I kind of want to dive a little bit more into that. |
| 1:16.0 | Look at some reasons why that is terrible advice. |
| 1:19.0 | It's lazy. It doesn't allow us to actually take any action. I want to dive into that and this should be a pretty good episode |
| 1:26.8 | So be sure to stick around for that now before we jump into that conversation. I do want to tell you about something I've been working on |
| 1:36.6 | over the last few months. |
| 1:37.5 | So if you've been struggling to take consistent daily action |
| 1:41.1 | towards your goals, or maybe you just feel like you're always |
| 1:44.4 | starting over from scratch. Well I get it I've been there and there's nothing more |
| 1:49.4 | frustrating than taking the time to identify your goal only to wake up 30 days later having |
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