Product Description

Taking action is a fast paced and exciting book on how to achieve your goals and dreams by changing your habits of action taking. If you previously delayed too long in taking action, procrastinated, deliberated, gave countless excuses, always seemed to take the wrong actions, or simply avoided taking action, then this book is for you. It will show you how to evaluate quickly, the right action to take, motivate you to take it, and help you put in place the habits necessary to maintain your new positive habit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2100670 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-06
• Released on: 2005-07-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 107 pages

From the Author
This is a book about taking action. For some, this verb, action, means something they do, will do, might do, should do, have done, or never will do. For me, it means something I am doing NOW!

You may not understand the power of action if you are not using this power. This book will show you how to tap into this phenomenal power and change your life.

About the Author
An entrepreneur at heart, Samuel Blankson blends art, creativity, passion, business acumen, and financial expertise with careful planning and execution in the achievement of measurable results. He is an avid reader, writer, researcher, and securities trader.

He is an advocate of self-empowerment and an individual’s ability to control their destiny through the achievement of personal freedom from economic, financial, spiritual, social, mental, and interrelationship restrictions. Samuel is constantly working to push the boundaries of personal achievements to their limits, recognising that these limits are only self-imposed.

Samuel has authored over twenty books (How to Destroy Your Debts, Living the Ultimate Truth, Developing Personal Integrity, The Practical Guide to Total Financial Freedom volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and Attitude are some of these works). He has written over 100 songs, sixty of which are featured in Sixty Original Song Lyrics. He writes poetry! , creates artwork, and works daily to express his creativity in many ways.

Having successfully run several businesses, Samuel diversified into securities trading over a decade ago, with great success. After learning from the masters of the time, Samuel progressed to develop his own methods and systems for successful trading. Today, he trades many financial instruments and has developed ways of successfully generating profits from his many investments.

A firm believer in knowledge sharing, Samuel travels the globe, teaching and sharing his personal knowledge with groups of friends, associates, and anyone who seeks to improve their life. This is the spirit of Samuel Blankson, a God centred philanthropist, over comer, and high achiever.

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What is Action?
Whether you believe the universe begun with a single command by the Creator, or through the subatomic reactions within highly dense nebulae, you will agree on one thing, the universe begun with action. Everything that happens or will happen requires this important verb, action, to materialize. In fact, if you took action out of the world there would be no world. Action is the means, through which all things come to be. You are here because your parents took action a long time ago. Consequently, you will die someday because of the actions you have and will take throughout your life.

Whilst some believe that the Creator, or some complex mathematical principles governing the universe, controls all action, I believe that you have a choice, and you can select the actions you wish to take. Most people will disagree with this. If you are one of these people, let me reassure you that by the time you have finished reading this book, you will be greatly empowered and armed with the faith and belief that you can control your actions, and therefore determine the outcome of your life.

Components of action
Before you can make use of any tool, you have to understand it. In the case of action, you need to know its various manifestations, components, and possible usages. There are two major types of action. These are:

1. Unplanned action
2. Planned action

Unplanned action
Let us first look at unplanned action. When forced to act without planning, your action will be unplanned. This could result from an emergency, or through poor time management. Unless caught off guard in an emergency, where you have to act without planning first, there should never be a time when you act without a plan.

In terms of effective results, planned action far outperforms unplanned action. Unplanned action should therefore, only be used during situations with severe time pressures. When there is no time to plan your action, and choosing not to act will cause you great harm or inconvenience, you should proceed to act unplanned.

Unplanned actions are simple to make. They normally occur in situations where you have very limited choices in how you can react. Examples of these are; during a car accident or other act or die scenarios. In these situations, not acting or hesitating could mean the loss of a human life.

Not all unplanned action situations involve act or die choices. Sometimes, time pressure is the sole reason for taking unplanned action. As an example: you jump on the wrong metro train because you are running late, and have no time to confirm its direction.

In this scenario, you are taking a calculated risk because, by confirming the direction before boarding the train would made you late. Therefore, you give yourself a fifty percent chance of success by not confirming the direction. If you are wrong, you will be late anyway, and if you are right, you will be on time.

The result may not result in the loss of a life, but it may still be of great importance. In the metro scenario, you may have been on your way to a dream career interview. Being late for this meeting could mean the loss of this opportunity. Of course, not all unplanned action decisions are of such great importance. Some may have no life changing consequences associated to them.

For example: you are on holiday, and through the window of your moving vehicle, an ice scream vendor offers you a choice of two ice cream flavours. After handing over your money, you have a split second to select your desired flavour before your coach pulls away. Having limited time, you grab the right hand ice cream and hope you will like the flavour. This unplanned action could result in wasted money or an enjoyable purchase.

Whichever the case, the risk from your action would have minimal effect on your life. The majority of unplanned decisions fall into this unimportant category. It is wise to use unplanned actions for these type of scenarios and decisions for the following reasons:

1. To save time.
2. To discover new things you would normally not try.
3. To clearly define what is important for you.
4. To learn to think faster.
5. To develop your intuitive decision making skills, by practicing with unimportant decisions, so that when you have to make a life changing decision, your improved intuitive decision making skills will save you or another’s life.

Save time
Unimportant decisions do not require much deliberation. Use unplanned action type decisions for these types of situations. You will save a lot of decision time, minimise the amount of decisions you have to make, so that you can make better decisions when they really count.

By elevating unimportant decisions to a higher level of importance, your judgment will be clouded when it comes to making important decisions. You will be inefficient in decision-making if what shoes you wear to lunch! , is as important as what university major you decide to study. Keep your mind free for important decisions by using unplanned and quick decision making for unimportant decisions.

Customer Reviews

very practical book
I love the author's books, they are cheap and full of information. What I like about this book is that it gives you very simple rules of how to get into action. Very motivating.

WHen the student is ready ...
This book came just at the right time in my life. I needed to move forward from my then, dead life. It taught me that I was special and my achievements from now on can be what I plan them to be. It is well written and goes straight to the point, something that was alian to me before, having wasted most of my adult life deliberating and coming up with escuses for my inaction. I recommend anyone who like me before, is stuck in a rut, afraid to take action for fear of the consequences. It showed me how to plan and develop belief in myself again. I am telling all my friends about this and more importantly applying it myself.