Ep. 438: How to Actually Take Action In 3 Simple Steps

Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)

Tiffany Han

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, taking action can feel like an uphill battle, even if we’re motivated or inspired. The weight of uncertainty, fear of failure, and the allure of procrastination often paralyzes our best intentions.

It’s a common struggle to transform a thought into some sort of tangible action.

In my own life, I have found simple steps to take that help me actually get started.

What I am sharing with you today:

How to take action (it’s not just about creating an attainable first step)
The three steps that help us make things happen
How to keep going!

Resources from this episode:

Momentum: How to Find It (and keep it!)

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See you next time!

Tweets/Quotes:

Getting prepared is actually its own starting action. If we haven't done that step, then we're trying to jump forward, and it's harder. It takes more - more strength, more initial force, more power to overcome that inertia, and then nobody wins.

There are two deep breaths that are most important. Number one is the one that you take right before you do the thing, right before you take action. The second one is the one that you take after you've started because it lets you know that you survived.

Envision taking the action. Seeing it is going to help you believe that it's possible.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to raise your hands say yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about helping you have a
0:05.2	life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. Find out more and dive deep into
0:10.2	the archives at Tiffany Hahn.com and make sure you're following me over on Instagram at the Tiffany
0:15.1	Han. And now onto the show. Hey, friends. Okay, today's episode is a little bit shorter than usual because I'm giving you
0:23.7	something.
0:24.1	I want you to get out there in your life and try.
0:26.7	I actually want you to put this to the test and see how it works.
0:30.3	Once I explain it, there's not going to be anything else to say.
0:32.6	So if you are sitting down to listen to this or watch this and you're like, oh,
0:37.2	what am I going to do with the rest of my time?
0:40.6	You see, you see the dots are connecting.
0:42.8	Okay, to start and want you to close your eyes for a moment.
0:47.4	I mean, unless you're driving, take a breath and think about what is something that you want to take action on.
0:53.7	Now, if this is something big,
0:55.9	like write my book, I want you to ring it down until you get to what can you take action on
1:03.4	today or tomorrow, right? Within the next 48 hours, think about something you can do. So write my book, might become start my book,
1:12.9	outline my table of contents, write the introduction, do a chapter outline, brain dump all of my
1:18.7	ideas. Be more creative might become journal one page in my creativity journal. We all have a creativity
1:26.2	journal, right? Don't we all have a book that is
1:28.7	just, you know, where we put things and ideas to be creative one day, but then you've only actually
1:35.4	done it one single day back in July? Don't we all have that? So again, we're going to simmer that
1:41.1	down. And what I want to talk about today is how to actually take action.
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