February 15, 2007

Loud Actions and Quiet Words

How many people do you know who can talk the talk but never walk the walk? Maybe you are one of them, or maybe you are becoming one of them. I have seen many people in my life who have this issue, and many of them just don’t get it. Whether they are intentionally lying or just non dependable whenever it comes to their word, either way it is very annoying to hear anything from these type of people. Reason, they never deliver what they promise, and the more they do it the worse they get. If you feel you do this too much or even just a little bit, I would suggest a shift in your consciousness.

You make a shift in your consciousness by becoming conscious of new things. In this particular situation, I would suggest doing less talking and showing more actions. This principle works well with whatever you are into. The key to doing it successfully is to just do it exactly like the title, by showing “Loud Actions and Quiet Words”

Let me explain. If you have a test to study for next week, and you know you need to study for it big time, you shouldn’t be spending all of your time talking about it so much. When you spend all of your time talking about it, you are actually exhausting yourself, which would drain your energy from getting the actual work done successfully and in a timely manner. Sometimes it seems as if we all have had a tendency to tell others what we want to do. Over and over again we are discussing our desires to other people while we are unconsciously falling in love of having a conversation about it. I could talk about achieving anything I want to all day long, but without any action its pointless. It is good to have faith in what you want to do, have, or be, but it is “Action” that actually gets those things done.

There are many people who talk, talk, and talk all day everyday and they won’t ever shut up. These people are commonly known as procrastinators (don‘t worry we all do it a little). In order to use loud actions with quiet words you must learn to keep your work to the max, and your words to a minimum. Lets go back to my earlier example where you would imagine if you had a test due next week. Now pretend like you are the smartest person in your class (and yes, you can be a nerd if you want to, remember its your imagination, you can be whatever you want). If you are the smartest person in your class, I seriously doubt you will do any talking to others about the test. I believe you would instead spend that energy and use it to study hard and diligently for that test. Wouldn’t you? (Sorry, I guess only smart people would be able to picture that experience, but don‘t worry, you are!) I think you would. If we compare two people from the classroom in this situation, one being smart and the other not as smart. The not as smart person would spend the majority of his time worrying, complaining, putting off, and talking too much about the test rather than actually studying for it. The smart person would of course be the exact opposite as he spends the majority of his time studying for the test, and talking little. This is the same with business. The small people who want to be successful spend all of their time talking about wanting to be successful. They wish it, dream it, and desire it, but never achieve it. However, the big boys spend a lot less time doing less talking and doing more work. In the end, all that matters is the work. If a person never said a word but did all of the work necessary, that person still did their job completely 100%. Speaking about what you want to do is not really bad, necessarily, it actually can be good motivation. It is the talking “too much” part that hinders success.

Keep in mind. Your actions should always speak much louder than words. Only actions accomplish the tasks, dreams, goals, and desires. Faith without works is dead.

“Actions must always outweigh speech to accomplish anything.” - Walt S.

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