(04) – The Law of the Action –
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NADEUM ANNUAL COACHING – SOCIAL SKILLS – – THE ‘12 LAWS OF SUCCESS’
Create your own, It starts here!!
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Once you have completed your exercise today, enter your findings in the corresponding field. If you still lack experience, simply practice this development step for another day. At the end of the diary: Look forward to your next learning session.
We wish you lots of fun and interesting insights.
Andreas Andiel has summarised the world’s most recognised know-how from the most proven success instructions for personal satisfaction and professional success in the context of the ‘12 natural laws for success’. And it is precisely this elite know-how that forms the basis for every online course in the areas of communication, self-motivation and motivation of others, as well as mental strength.
A few more important details…
Every evening, as the last action of the day, you fill out your personal diary and record your experiences of the day.
- Important: This step of writing is very important for sustainable development. The following content is based on previous experiences! Only by registering your experiences in the training area can you make your progress tangible for yourself.
You can repeat the previous content and also read again and again what you have written down.
At regular intervals (every 7 units), you will take a short interim test with your coach. This helps you to consolidate your learning progress, discuss what you have learned with your coach and thus consolidate your knowledge.
At times, you may think that an exercise has little to do with your profession or your personality. The course is structured didactically. Please do not skip any knowledge or exercises – trust that each step is important.
- For example: Professional athletes always start with a warm-up, constantly work on their fitness, strengthen their technique, and then move on to the game structure and a decisive competition. In professional sports, there is no ‘I already know that’ or ‘I don’t need that’
So complete each session before moving on to the next. Stay in the same session for two or three days if necessary. Train at your own pace.
YOUR NADEUM YEAR COACHING – SOCIAL SKILLS
The ‘12 LAWS OF SUCCESS’ at a glance
(This is your first task. Read it carefully. If you have any questions, please contact your coach at the WhatsApp number: +43 660 7621873) [You will see all laws again and again in all steps. When the text is blue, you are in the current exercise].
No. 01 – The Law of Responsibility –
Taking responsibility means taking advantage of a great opportunity. And without taking responsibility in society, there will be no successful engagement in society. By consciously taking responsibility for my own thinking, I recognise the creative possibilities in my own area and gain personal freedom.
No. 02 – The Law of Learning –
Learning from ‘mistakes’ means improving the path until it leads to the achievement of a goal. Get out of the ‘mistake game’! The main topics in this unit are solution-oriented, constructive thinking and action, positive interaction with one’s own environment and the acceptance of all feedback as an indicator for optimising one’s own path.
No. 03 – The Law of Will –
The difference between dreams, desires and intentions. How to develop a determined willpower. Recognising your own goals, developing a goal plan, determining the necessary effort and learning to develop a strong will for activities for yourself (and others) that will enable you to achieve your goal in the first place.
No. 04 – The Law of Action –
Knowing when to act, what to do, and how to do it is the basis of every project. After completing the planning and decision-making, it is now a matter of moving from talking to action and focusing all energies on the start-up phase.
No. 05 – The Law of Trust –
It is important to trust in yourself. However, it is just as important that society/the environment builds trust in us! One of the most important prerequisites for this is reliability, which in turn is based on personal responsibility and time/self-management.
No. 06 – The law of reality –
It is not always necessary to see everything the way everyone else sees it. However, it is crucial to know how others focus on learning to deal with it and to achieve a more understanding approach to your environment. Empathy, understanding and tolerance are key skills for living together in harmony.
No. 07 – The law of adaptation –
Everyone is on their own at first. The closer you are to someone else, the closer you are to them. And the more you get. Conscious adaptation or non-adaptation must be used in combination with a responsible approach to one’s own environment. By consciously deciding to adapt or not to adapt, the individual gains personal freedom and strength.
No. 08 – The Law of Leadership –
The basics of ‘alpha leadership’ and how to use them correctly. The right balance between ‘leading’ and ‘letting lead’. In this unit, it is also important to learn how to consciously use the instrument of ‘letting lead’ and thus create valuable conditions for teamwork and/or team leadership.
No. 09 – The Law of Balance –
Recognising a balance between ‘giving’ and ‘taking’. The balance of body, mind and soul must be established in order to achieve the same performance. It is also important to consider compensation to third parties. ‘If you want to reap, you must first sow’. Those who are aware that they will always have to pay for the desired person in the form of services, resources, etc. will achieve their goals more easily and be appreciated by their fellow human beings for their efforts.
No. 10 – Law of Growth –
Everything grows through the alternation of push and pause. Those who handle it correctly get the most out of it. Continuous action leads to growth and success. This unit conveys the positive aspects of consistent action, the basic requirements for success in every activity (private or professional).
No. 11 – Law of Defence –
Knowing when, what and how to successfully defend yourself gives you the gentle calm of self-confidence. Develop a ‘we’ thinking in a conflict situation and find solutions together that everyone can support. This unit also provides basic skills for harmonious interaction with your professional, family and social environment.
No. 12 – The Law of Usefulness –
When we give others what they want, they give us everything, according to the value we create for them. Increasing the value means getting more. Knowing one’s own value leads to a strong personality that is able to act calmly and sensibly in all situations and to shape one’s own life.
No. 04 – The Law of Action
🧭 Law No. 04 – The Law of Action
🌟 Basic meaning
‘Without action, every idea, every dream, every vision remains a thought without power.’
The Law of Action states that concrete action is necessary to make dreams, goals and intentions a reality. It is not enough to just plan, pray, hope or visualise – transformation only happens through active action.
🔍 Key principles of the law
- Intention without action is illusion
- Belief, intention and will are important – but it is only through your actions that they become real power.
- Energy follows movement
- Once you take the first step, others will follow. Doors open, contacts are made, coincidences help.
- The courage to be imperfect
- You don’t have to be perfectly prepared. The important thing is to start. Growth happens in doing, not in waiting.
- Action creates clarity
- By doing, you learn what works – and what doesn’t. Thoughts alone do not provide experience.
- Universal law of resonance
- Through action, you resonate with your environment. You send out a signal: ‘I mean business.’→ People, resources and opportunities respond to this.
🔨 Practical application
Area Idea for action
🌱 Personal development Dedicate 10 minutes a day to learning a new skill
📚 Education Apply for a scholarship or course
💼 Entrepreneurship Approach your first customer or build a prototype
❤️ Relationships Approach someone honestly or start a conversation
💪 Health Exercise for 15 minutes today or prepare a healthy meal
🧘♂️ In spiritual practice
In many spiritual traditions, the law of action is a central element:
- In Christianity: ‘Faith without works is dead’ (James 2:26)
- In Islam: Actions (amal) are decisive for God’s judgment
- In Buddhism: Karma is created by actions (not just thoughts)
- In African thinking: Action is an expression of responsibility towards the community and ancestors
✨ Summary
‘Do what you know in your heart – the path emerges as you walk.’
The law of action calls on you to bring your inner calling into the world – not tomorrow, but today. Small steps are enough, as long as you get moving.
ACTION: THE LAW OF ACTION
The road to success is paved with good intentions. The problem is that most goals are never tackled. Instead, there is hesitation and doubt until the initial motivation dissolves into nothing.
But: If you don’t start, you will never complete anything. So, it’s best to start NOW.
Check yourself in the following test on this topic.
Self-test ACTION
Can you defeat your “weaker self”?
The weaker self is an apathy that nips any initiative in the bud. Do you know that – the many excuses, all the reasons that speak against it? Can you oppose that?
1. What’s about the last three resolutions you have made?
I have actually realized two. (A)
I could only put one of them into action. (B)
I can’t hold on to anything, even if I’m determined to. (C)
2. Are you satisfied with yourself and your lifestyle?
On the whole yes. (A)
I should change a few things. (B)
I don’t know where to start. (C)
3. If you want to change something, do you tell others about it?
Yes, I tell friends and colleagues. (C)
No, I keep my plans to myself. (A)
I will initiate my best friend/girl friend at the most. (B)
4 How would your environment react if you completely turned your life upside down?
Would they even notice it??? (C)
I think they’d support me. (B)
They’d try to talk me out of it. (A)
5. How important is it that your life changes?
Very important. (B)
It doesn’t matter. (A)
It would be nice. (C)
6. Which attributes, which are enumerated here, apply most to you?
Friendly, considerate and reliable. (A)
Independent, active and spontaneous. (B)
Optimistic, open-minded and enthusiastic. (C)
7. If you have something in mind, how do you usually proceed?
I make a plan that I stick to (A)
I don’t make plans; I rely on my high motivation. (B)
I’m not going to do anything because I can’t hang on anyway. (C)
8. How often do you say sentences like “I would have to lose a few kilos”, “I would have to stop smoking” or “I would have to work less and do more for my fitness”?
Quite often. (A)
Never, actually. (B)
It happens once in a while. (C)
Add the letter values and write them down on a sheet of paper.
EVALUATION
THE LAW OF ACTION
Take the letter values you wrote down on a sheet of paper and add them.
A = ___times
B = ___times
C = ___times
Read the interpretation with your highest letter value to find out where you stand.
A The weaker self under control
Continuous development is already part of your life. On the whole, it can stay the way it is. Between goal setting and implementation, you show patience and you can motivate yourself well if the project comes to a standstill. You owe your success to a moderate choice of goals, the policy of small steps. The fact that you have your “weaker self under control” so well is evidence of reason – but what you lack is the courage to tackle even larger changes.
B Action – let go – action …
You would like to change a lot if it were just a little easier to find the right starting time. You probably concentrate a little too much on making your projects a success. The initial kick, the plus in motivation and energy doesn’t last very long and you like to be distracted from your plans by others. That’s why you start over and over again, only to give up halfway … You think you need the support of your environment in order to start any changes at all.
C Not enough power
If the little word “if” would not exist … It is a fatal absolute term in your vocabulary that robs you of the courage to implement your goals in advance. So, what to do? It’s best to take another step back and look for an easily achievable goal that you can implement with consistent planning. You don’t have to care about the opinions of others and free yourself from the people around you who have doubts. A small success can be the initial starting point to initiate bigger changes soon.
Look forward to your next recognition.
Recognition Unit 46:
Do you like skiing? Or do you at least sometimes watch the television broadcasts of ski races?
Now please imagine the following situation…
…you’re one of the ski racers.
You have taken responsibility for your career. You have learned the techniques of ski racing with all its subtleties, and you have developed an irrepressible will to win.
Now you stand in the starting house and don’t tackle the matter…
…you just don’t start.
Because suddenly you think about what could happen at these speeds. Yes, suddenly you even doubt whether ski racing is really what you want. And while you’re still thinking, the start countdown is over. You will be disqualified and one of the biggest chances of your life has passed unused.
If you are of the opinion that such a situation is unimaginable, then that may be true, but then I ask you why such an “unlikely situation” in the lives of so many people is almost daily life?
Too many people spend their lives with good intentions but never get into action.
Even after working through this course, some will say:
“The author is correct with what he writes here – now I will change some things!
And with exactly this statement it will remain. These people will live on just like before. Only with the difference that they again know a little more about how things would go better – and that they hopefully at least know that only they alone are responsible if they don’t do it better.
How many people do you know who really want one thing, prepare for it and then never start? Not just once or twice in their life, but almost all the time. People who keep telling you about new projects, but don’t really tackle any of them.
So many people are constantly looking for a new start, but never really get started. So many people are enthusiastic about a project, but they never really get down to it. And only a small part of these projects is not started because there are good reasons.
The reason that the majority of new starts in life never happen and the majority of projects are not realized is – that we are too lazy or too cowardly.
The knowledge of one’s own indecision, laziness or whatever else it may be, which prevents one from “tackling” things, makes one more and more dissatisfied with oneself. And this “negative spiral” keeps on turning until one day one doesn’t like oneself anymore and has resigned oneself to not being able to realize one’s goals.
If you realize that you are responsible yourself, if you are willing to learn, if you trust yourself and other people including your environment – then the only way to get out of this negative spiral is…
…the “action”.
Exercise 46:
Now plan how you want your evening tomorrow to look like.
• Check out what’s on TV today and choose a show you’d like to see.
• Choose a CD or playlist which you would like to listen to
• Schedule a reading evening or
• Think of something you’d like to do.
Imagine all day today what your evening will look like – with a glass of wine and a cuddly blanket… – and think all day about how beautiful your evening tomorrow will be!
Recognition Unit 47:
If you now ask yourself whether you have sometimes stopped without good reason in the starting house, whether you have simply not tackled a thing – so we look together at a few situations in which the law of action was not respected.
And you check whether one or the other seems familiar to you:
• You are enthusiastic about a new idea.
You tell yourself that this thing would be just right for you. You decide to really get going – just want to check a few little things beforehand. In order to take these exams, you need time that you don’t have at the moment. Some time passes and just when you are really busy with the preparations, you notice that someone else has already started the project. It’s too late for you now.
• You get a chance and intuitively feel: That’s it!
Any checks and research will also show that the opportunity offered would be a big step on your personal path. Now you start to talk about it with your acquaintances, colleagues and friends. But instead of enthusiasm, you consistently encounter scepticism, which is based purely on lack of knowledge, but is nevertheless taken seriously by you. This is why you are more and more concerned with things that might be negative in this project, instead of the big advantages of the opportunity offered. And so, you hesitate until you realize that the opportunity is over.
• You are sure that you need to start a certain project, have a necessary conversation, do an urgent job or do anything else.
For this reason, you sit down and start to intensively engage with the necessary preparations. You carefully plan the process, the situation you are facing, the interview or the activity. During the planning phase, however, new questions develop again and again, with whose answers you also deal thoroughly in tun. You know how the wheel turns? Maybe you have experienced it yourself before: You plan and plan and plan – but you never start.
• How many times in your life have you seen a person you thought: “I would like to get to know this person better”.
How many of these people have you actually met? And why was it that you did not get to know the other people? No matter whether it was a professional or a private contact, you lost a lot of possibilities with every contact you didn’t make. Why then does it happen again and again that we let contact possibilities pass unused?
Many people would like to do things that they still are leaving them untouched for the rest of their lives.
Most of them take it as fate that these things don’t happen, that they didn’t get the opportunity to do so. They blame their environment, their preconditions, even their childhood, their parents for their life not going as they would like it to.
All they would have had to do was tackle things.
Exercise 47:
You have carefully planned your evening in the previous recognition unit.
Maybe you were looking forward to it too?
Don’t do what you have planned tonight.
Yes, that is exactly what is means: by no means do what you were already looking forward to.
Write down what thoughts are going through your mind now that you are not doing what you have been looking forward to all this time.
Instead, note in the evening which situations have taken place recently exactly according to this pattern.
Recognition Unit 48:
People want so much of life, and many people take on infinite things. If they don’t succeed, it’s usually the circumstances and everyone else’s fault.
But as a rule, the solution is quite simple: too little has been done.
And dreams whose realization was never tackled remain dreams.
Only my decision to actually implement a project, results in an external effect. As long as I only show the will but do not begin to act, I leave the possibilities of implementation or non-implementation of my project with others.
In other words: Only when I am active in a matter, I have an effect on my environment – when I remain passive in the matter, forces constantly work against me and my path.
Only those who make decisions can actively determine their personal path.
Because here the parallelogram of forces applies: Whenever I actively decide and begin to act, my powers are working from the inside to the outside, in every absence of this decision and if I remain passive, I am determined from the outside.
Many suffer from not being able to decide. They often blame other people or supposedly adverse circumstances if something does not develop according to their ideas. In most cases, this fear of making a decision arises out of the fear of making mistakes.
However, every time you feel the fear of making a mistake and cannot make a decision for this reason, it is helpful to keep two things in mind:
- First, no decision can create exclusively negative circumstances for the personal path. Every decision, every action involve positive developments with one hundred percent certainty – even if the preliminary result is viewed negatively.
- And secondly, every originally undesirable circumstance resulting from a decision or action serves as an indicator in the sense of “learning”.
And as we now know, these indicators are necessary for personal development and the achievement of a goal. But if I never start to act because I can never decide, I will never be able to collect such indicators and therefore never be able to improve enough to be good enough to achieve my goal.
It sounds crazy, but it is the rule: Most people are either too comfortable or too afraid to decide to tackle something. They therefore prefer to stay there for a lifetime, from where they absolutely want to leave.
Exercise 48:
Take an extra paper.
Now write down a task on it that you have been putting off for some time (which you may have promised to another person, you are happy about and haven’t gotten to yet) and that you can plan for tomorrow at short notice.
Fold the paper together, write “TOMORROW” legibly on it and put it in a drawer.
Observe today in which situations you use the word “TOMORROW” and also note why you are doing this.
Recognition Unit 49:
However, I can assure you that no one will come to carry you on your way to your goal. We have to decide for ourselves, stand up and act.
Only in taking immediate action lies the basis for success. Because you don’t get anything without earning it.
To make the matter a little more difficult, it is not only necessary to decide. But to be successful, it is essential to decide quickly. An opportunity that is formed, to recognize, to make the decision and to start acting immediately.
Imagine you write on a sheet of paper what you have to do to be successful – to reach your goal…
… now you fold the sheet of paper, and you are writing the word “TOMMORROW” on it.
Now put this sheet of paper in a drawer and decide to start tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, you go to this drawer, open it, see the sheet of paper on which your way to your destination is held and what do you read? The word “MORGEN”!
So, you close the drawer again and think to yourself – well, tomorrow I start. The next day you go back to the drawer and open it. You want to start with the tasks to go now the successful way – what do you read?
Right – the word “TOMORROW”! So, you close the drawer again and decide to start tomorrow.
You will read the word “TOMORROW” every day. And because our brain best memorizes the things we do more often, the word “TOMORROW” will become more and more familiar to you. Until one day you realize that it was high time already “YESTERDAY” and it is too late today.
In the period of time in which you do not actively decide and immediately consciously begin to act, you are determined from outside and nothing changes.
With this in mind, it can be a successful approach, which consists of successful “actions”, entirely in such a way that the development is steered exclusively by self-made decisions and subsequent immediate actions.
Thoughtful, rapid decision-making with immediate subsequent actions means keeping the law of action with you.
Not being able to decide is a purely personal weakness. Either out of the absurd fear of making mistakes or because our brain is so used to the word “TOMORROW”.
However, this weakness can be eradicated by anyone without much effort.
Exercise 49:
Look in the drawer from exercise 48 and read what’s on your piece of paper.
Note how you feel and what thoughts you had. If you have removed the note, put it back in the drawer.
Now list those things that you have wanted to do privately for some time and haven’t gotten to do yet.
Intermediate test 7:
Without inner harmony there can be no really strong will.
Pressure and compulsion are indispensable for the achievement of goals.
Not being able to decide is a purely personal strength.
“Never strike – always move aside”. Only through decisions I can actively determine my path.
Recognition Unit 50:
Strength is shown by the one who can make a decision as quickly as possible, but carefully considered, and who can start a thing immediately afterwards.
He will always have an advantage over those who cannot make a decision or can only make it hesitantly. He seizes the law of action. He will be the successful one who is able to assert himself.
How many chances have you already missed, just because you could not decide or simply did not become active?
Only those who are willing to make decisions and tackle things dynamically will be able to shape their own personal path in life and be successful. If you are afraid of making mistakes, keep in mind that this fear is something completely unreasonable. Because it is these mistakes, these personal indicators that make you mature for your goal. (See “Point II. Learning”)
If you are just too comfortable and too lazy to make an active decision and start acting consciously, remember that the time period in which you can “sleep” will be long enough…
… and that you should now make something out of your life, because that is what you were given.
However, making active decisions does not always mean simply hurrying forward. Often it is much smarter not to do something. But also, there you should consciously decide not to tackle this thing, and you should absolutely know why you do not do this or that.
Successful people always decide consciously for something or consciously against something.
They never don’t do anything just because they can’t decide. The big difference is simply that successful people can always tell you why they do or don’t do something. With this they know their way exactly, are true to themselves and thereby gain an immense charisma and personality.
Just play a little game for once. Ask yourself for a week, about everything you do:
“Why do I do that?”
Maybe then you will notice,…
• …that you do things out of habit even though they don’t seem meaningful to you.
• … that you do things because these things are expected of you, even though you don’t want to do them at all.
• … that you do things only because others also do these things.
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Or you have to realize when you look at them that these things hinder the achievement of your goal. Then you should decide more consciously in the future and act more actively!
You will never be able to completely avoid acting out of habit (and that is in principle also ok, as you will see in chapter “VIII. Leadership”) but you should know why you have which habits and above all:
Why you want to have some!
Exercise 50:
Look in the “TOMORROW drawer” and read what it says on your piece of paper.
Follow these instructions (“TOMORROW”) and close the drawer.
Make a list of the things you’ve been trying to do professionally for some time but haven’t done yet.
Recognition Unit 51:
By the time you are ready, you are certainly well on the way. For successful action, the second element of the action plays an important role in addition to your decision to tackle something: the enforcement of the target.
In the long run, only those will prevail who are so convinced of their ideas and conceptions that they see the realization only as a logical consequence of their continuous actions. Only in that way he will be sufficiently emotionalized and achieving that motivation to be able to assert himself against other opinions and opposing social positions.
As already pointed out in the Law of Will, the firm will to enforce the goal of action is the prerequisite to successfully end an “attack”. To apply this will is somewhat laborious only at the beginning of an “attack”. But if one has taken the first steps and has gone through the first resistances, then an amazing phenomenon can be observed…
Through the continuous enforcement of all decisions taken, the strength to meet resistance and confidence in the correctness of one’s own path grows.
To enforce decisions made even against resistance and to maintain the corresponding will to achieve a target brings in the long run focus, energy and sensitivity for inner leadership. And this means that walking your way becomes easier and easier for you.
The longer you walk the path, the more you gain in personality and charisma and thus more and more people will trust you, your path and your goal.
Not for nothing most people say – after they have reached their goal – that it looked very difficult in the beginning, now that they have reached their goal, they can say that it was much easier than they thought.
This is due to “personal growth” as they walk the path. And this growth happens all by itself. You only have to take the first steps…
… decide and start acting immediately.
Because the secret is simply to get a thing up and running. Otherwise, you will feel like a skier who has trained for years and has a firm will to win – but will not come to the start at the decisive moment because he has simply wasted too much time preparing himself, checking the equipment and mentally adjusting to the course.
There are so many people who prepare perfectly but never make anything out of it – because they miss the attack.
Exercise 51:
Look in the “TOMORROW drawer” and read what it says on your piece of paper.
Follow these instructions (“TOMORROW”) and close the drawer.
Find an item from the list of privately unfinished business (see exercises 34 and 49) and tackle it TODAY. Make a note of how you managed it and how you felt about it.
Recognition Unit 52:
Here are some examples of how you can optimally use the law of action in your private life:
• Next time you meet a stranger where you have the feeling that you would like to get to know them, be it because you assume that professional synergies could arise, be it for purely private reasons or simply because you would like to make new contacts, define your own intentions and simply act. Any consideration of how the person you are talking to might react is completely pointless, because you can only know this after you have acted. However, if you do not act, you will only know one thing: that you have not used an opportunity.
• Delete the term “TOMORROW” from your vocabulary. Instead, formulate exactly defined periods and dates. For all activities you have to perform, use the time concept of the present. Never say: “I will do it”, but always “I do it”. Even if you’re not doing the job right now, you’re at least thinking about the phrase “I’m doing it” and have already tackled the matter instead of putting it on the back burner.
• If there are conversations in the queue that are unpleasant for you, you have two possibilities in principle:
1. You postpone the time further and further and hope that the thing takes care of itself, or
2. You look for the next possible opportunity to have the clarifying conversation.
You will find very quickly (if you have not already done so) that the solution to an interpersonal problem is always only in sight from the moment you start to tackle it.
• Surely you have been in situations where your feelings recommended a different approach than your mind. In such moments our feelings usually recommend us an action, which we intuitively perceive as correct, but from which our mind keeps us away with all possible doubts. In these cases, you define your intention, make the decision and tackle the matter. You will certainly feel better in the long run – even if one or the other unwanted event should occur – and force your personal development more strongly if you act more than doubt.
The most important asset for your private satisfaction and of course your professional success is your own personal development. However, this can only happen if you accept challenges and tackle things.
Therefore, do not postpone any of the challenges of your life to “later”. Because with that you would also shift your development and growth to “later”.
Action always starts with the word “now”.
Exercise 52:
Look in the “TOMORROW drawer” and read what it says on your piece of paper.
Follow these instructions (“TOMORROW”) and close the drawer.
Find an item from the list of privately unfinished business (see exercises 34 and 49) and tackle it TODAY. Make a note of how you did it and how you felt about it.
Recognition Unit 53:
And here are some suggestions on how you can apply the law of action in your professional life:
• A distribution of tasks within a team
When assigning tasks within a team, make sure that only a short project time is used for the preparation and analysis of the tasks and their feasibility. From the outset, decide on a fixed starting time to start the project. Too many companies and team managers waste far too much time analysing the feasibility of projects, preparing documentation, and weighing the pros and cons. If they then want to start, it is often too late or the motivation within the team is already severely impaired by the cumbersome preparation. Projects in companies are often torpedoed right from the start – when far too much time passes to make a decision to tackle things.
• Firm guidelines and values for the career
Create guidelines and fixed values according to which you want to advance your career or lead your company.
Memorize the parameters so firmly that you can query them at any time. If a question or challenge comes up, you have to make a decision now – so you will be able to make a decision much faster.
You save yourself a lot of time to weigh up and many moments of uncertainty. Because you always make decisions based on existing parameters and go a clear, safe way.
This gives confidence and you are able to tackle everything much more calmly and quickly.
• Determine on the way
If you have made a decision, have tackled something, then you also commit yourself and your colleagues/employees to this path.
In case of difficulties during the implementation, never ask yourself whether the chosen path is at all feasible, but only how the implementation is feasible.
Show your “comrades-in-arms” also quite clearly that what you have tackled is no longer to be questioned, but creativity is required in the search for the best way to achieve the goal.
• Consciously not tackling something
Also let your colleagues know if you deliberately do not tackle something and give a reason for it.
Then your environment knows that you are acting consciously and that you are not omitting the action out of fear, forgetfulness, comfort or something similar.
Don’t forget that not tackling something is just as valuable as tackling something. The only thing that matters is that you act consciously, make a decision quickly, and if you want to start something, do it as quickly as possible.
Because in professional life it is not about doing as much as possible, it is about achieving the maximum with as little effort as possible.
Show always and everywhere that you make clear and quick decisions and give reasons for all your decisions.
Then you will quickly get the reputation of a “doer” – and this distinguishes you very pleasantly from the all too widespread reputation of an “omission”.
Exercise 53:
1. Today speak to a person who is completely unknown to you.
Involve this person in a conversation that should last at least two minutes (not just ask for the time).
2. Look into the “TOMORROW drawer” and read what’s on your note.
Follow these instructions (“TOMORROW”) and close the drawer.
Continued success with the implementation!
Recognition Unit 54:
Let us summarize the law of action in its main points:
• Decide consciously:
This is at the beginning of the process and is the starting point for a successful “action”. If you let your feelings, fears, hopes etc. to decide, you will only reap the fruits of your feelings, fears, hopes etc. But decide consciously – in such a way that you can always justify why you have decided so and why this decision was the best possible for the chosen goal – so you consciously steer your way to your goal.
Then give your environment the appropriate explanations why you chose which “action” and why you decided to refrain from an “action”, then trust and security will grow in your environment, and you will be recognized as a leader.
• Decide quickly:
The quick decision is what distinguishes you from laggards and doubters. The quick decision enables you to carry out many more projects at the same time with a much better overview. In addition, your charisma and self-confidence as well as your efficiency grow significantly with the ability to make quick decisions.
While others are still thinking, you should have known for a long time what to do. In order to achieve this, it is advisable to create fixed values and clear guidelines according to which you can act and make decisions at any time.
• Start immediately:
Even if the preparation isn’t finished yet, you should start as soon as the way is clear, and the first resources are available. Those who wait until all preparations have been completed before starting to act will never start. Because even with the best-planned project, questions and new problems arise again and again during implementation. Not all points can be clarified in advance. Waiting for this is merely an excuse for the inability to start acting.
• Will enforce:
Already with the decision to tackle a thing, the clear will for the penetration of the action must be present. If this is not the case, it is better to distance yourself from it. In this case, success would be very unlikely. You must be convinced with the decision, with the beginning of the “action” that firstly you really want to reach the goal and secondly that you will also reach it. This attitude will give you the strength to stand by your decision even in difficult situations. And it will give you the strength to master all challenges on the way to your goal, even more, to grow with it.
Consequence:
At all times and in all areas of my life, I alone consciously make the decision as to whether I “tackle” something or not. If I have decided to take action, I start immediately with the implementation and enforce it with all my strength and against all resistance.
Exercise 54:
Today choose a point out of the professionally unfinished business (Exercise 50) which is unpleasant for you and finish this TODAY.
If you cannot find one there, take another unpopular job or activity at work and do it TODAY.
Reward yourself in the evening or after finishing with a little something (for example, chocolate, cake, going out with a friend, etc.). <<<
Check the “TOMORROW drawer” again today and read what’s on your note. Follow these instructions (“TOMORROW”) and close the drawer.
Continued success with the implementation!
Recognition Unit 55:
How we can apply the law of attack to our body:
How often do we take on something that affects our body?
Like, for example:
• losing weight,
• I want to do some sports,
• to nourish your health,
• stop smoking,
• less to drink,
• more fresh air,
• regular health checks and, and, and.
What do you estimate, what is the percentage of all resolutions that only remain resolutions and after a short initial enthusiasm seep back into the sand?
Don’t you know?
Neither do I.
And actually, we are not interested in how many of the intentions “one” implements – no, we are now only interested in how many of your intentions you have implemented!
Now (before you continue reading) spontaneously note on a sheet of paper all resolutions you have made so far regarding your body.
You can write resolutions among each other. Write down everything you have decided to do at some point.
When you have done this, please write an “OK” behind all the resolutions you have consistently enforced. (Gladly you can still transfer everything in the diary entry)
Will there still be any left?
If so, which ones?
And why?
Now honestly give yourself the answers. And please write down these answers as well.
Now you see a short or longer list of things which would have done your body very well, which you have also recognized, which is why you have also decided to implement these things – and the reasons why you have not done it.
Imagine your body talking to you and accusing you of neglecting it.
• How would you explain it to him?
• Do you think that the listed reasons would be sufficient and plausible enough?
• Or do you think that your body would not accept all these reasons?
If the latter is true – then you know what really went wrong:
You have never really tackled your resolutions!
If I feel the need to do something for my body, I must decide right away and immediately set the first step.
Only then my resolution can lead to success.
Our body is much more susceptible to “repression” and “forgetting” than our mind.
If we at least have a bad conscience mentally, if we do not implement something, we have set out to do – then our body is not burdened with something like a conscience.
If I do not act immediately when I make a resolution concerning my body, then I do not set it in motion, and it remains sluggish in the state in which it was before.
Our body is like a railway wagon. It takes a lot of energy and strength to get it running. And if I only “push” a wagon for a short time, wait and then “push” it again – pretty much nothing will move. The same applies to our body. That’s why it’s so important, especially with regard to our body, to tackle a resolution immediately and above all correctly.
Exercise 55:
Today bring together all those things from the lists of Exercises 49 and 50 that have not yet been completed and provide them with the date on which they are to be completed.
Then transfer them to your calendar on the given date.
And now look into the “TOMORROW drawer” and do that activity that is written on your note TODAY!
Then take a new piece of paper and write down the word “TODAY” on it.
Put it in the drawer and use it in the future as an “anchor” to tackle things.
Continued success with the implementation!
Recognition Unit 56:
What negative events occur if we do not observe the law of action in relation to our body?
Go through the following points carefully and determine for yourself whether one or the other situation seems familiar to you. If this is the case, you know where to start.
• One day you decide to lose weight.
It’s spring, the bathing season is just around the corner and a great figure would actually be very desirable. But after two days of fasting and starvation you’re aggressive and without any further motivation – “what’s the point, because of the few days on the beach” – and stop losing weight.
• A friend tells you enthusiastically about a great gym.
You go there together and after the very friendly advice of the local staff you decide spontaneously and very motivated to sign an annual contract. You decide to train together at least twice a week.
One week is fine, in the second week your friend has no time, because he is on training, and you therefore only go once.
In the third week you have too much work and you cannot attend the gym exactly when your friend is able to and so on…
Finally, and finally you don’t go any more.
• After you have read an article about the latest civilization diseases in a magazine, you suddenly think intensively about your diet.
You come to the conclusion that you could optimize some things in this area, and you immediately plan to do so.
Your decision looks like this: In the evening before going to bed, no more chocolate, light food and few carbohydrates, replace the cake in the afternoon with some fruit. When your colleague celebrates his birthday three days later, you of course treat yourself to a piece of his birthday cake.
When you are invited to dinner with your parents-in-law on Sunday, you can’t resist the roast pork.
• After a visit to the doctor and a subsequent intensive conversation with your partner regarding your also very intense nicotine consumption, you agree with yourself to restrict smoking very much, if not to let it go altogether.
In the first week you reduce your cigarette consumption to a quarter and are completely sure that you will continue to do so.
But after an evening with your friends, you wake up and find that you have smoked almost four times what you had planned.
• After another very exhausting and long working day, you are lying completely exhausted and tired at home, thinking that your body also needs breaks from time to time to be able to perform in the long run.
Reasonably, you now set yourself the goal of incorporating appropriate recovery phases on a daily basis.
But already on the next day your boss demands overtime – and of course you do this.
Exercise 56:
List those things that you have been planning to do for a long time in physical terms but have not yet tackled.
Implement today at least one item from this list in such a way that it can be integrated consistently and long-term into your daily routine or weekly schedule.
And if it is “only”,
• that from now on you’ll walk as much as you can,
• go for a walk during lunch break,
• that you eat a piece of fruit every day,
• go jogging once a week.
It is important that you tackle it today in such a way that it can become your fixed habit.
Continued success with the implementation!
Intermediate test 8:
Action always begins with the word “now”.
Doers decide quickly and can give reasons for their decisions.
The secret lies simply in planning a thing in detail.
The essential thing is once, whenever I am faced with a challenge: self-contemplation.
Never say: “I’m doing it “, but always “I will do it”.
Recognition Unit 57:
In order to use the law of the attack optimally for your body, “inspire” it for what you intend with it!
And this happens best in the following – you already know – steps:
1. Decide consciously:
This is at the beginning of the process and is the starting point for a successful “action”.
You should not lose weight because someone else wants it that way.
Just because we want to please someone else doesn’t usually mean that our body has the willpower to really move and to do without many things (unless we are very much in love, because then our body is involved with a lot of hormones).
Only if you consciously and for yourself alone make the decision that you want to change your figure because you feel better and not because of someone else – only then you have a real chance to achieve your goal.
Because your body can be steered and influenced by your mind to the maximum, but never by other people.
Your sole and conscious decision is also the basis for successfully tackling a matter in relation to your body.
2. Decide quickly:
The quick decision is the one which delivers your body to the so-called “moment of surprise” and with this you can “overpower” it.
If, for example, you go to a restaurant with your work colleagues for lunch break and you are faced with the decision to order good and hearty food like all other colleagues or (because you want to lose weight and have decided on this diet) to settle for a salad and water – then the following will happen to your body:
With every second that you think longer about what to do when the waiter takes the orders, your body is pushing more and more to ask for a “proper” meal.
If you now wait until the end and are the last to be asked what you want, the temptation will be much greater to order something “tidy” to eat – than if you commit yourself immediately after the waiter appears and are the first to place the order by ordering a salad and water in a sure voice.
Decide quickly and “surprise” your body.
It will then be much easier for you to successfully tackle a task.
3. Start immediately:
Even if the preparation is not yet completely finished, you should start as soon as the way is clear.
If you know that you want to lose weight – then start right now, immediately and at the moment! Because the longer you plan what diet you should follow, when you should follow it and maybe who you should follow it with – the longer your body has time to work against it.
And believe me: He will work against it!
Because it’s not in his nature to lose weight.
Therefore, you have to get him on the right path with a “surprise attack”.
Give your body a feeling of enthusiasm, create an emotion that causes it to overcome the law of inertia and to agree with your spiritual goals.
Enthusiasm leads to a feeling of happiness, which promotes decisiveness and lets you – and therefore also your body – tackle things and end successfully. Things that you would otherwise consider impossible.
Physical goals, such as a healthy diet, the ideal weight, general fitness – are easy to achieve.
All you need to do is start the right action in the right way.
Exercise 57:
Copy your list from Exercise 56. Look at all the pending physical points.
Go through the list mentally and delete all points where you don’t (yet) feel any positive emotions.
From the remaining points, take out another point today and tackle it TODAY.
And in such a way that it can be integrated from now on consistently and on a long-term basis into your daily routine and/or weekly plan.
Note that you “decide quickly”, “start today” and “anticipation and emotions arise”.
Make a note of how you achieved this goal and how you felt about it.
Continued success with the implementation!
Recognition Unit 58:
What impact does the law of action have for our inner harmony?
Surveys of personal and professional failures have shown that lack of irresolution, lack of decisiveness and determination are the most common causes of these failures.
It is one of human weaknesses to postpone everything, to delay everything and to “press” against a decision – especially when it comes to new, unknown or unpleasant experiences.
Indecisiveness is the brake shoe of success, because there can never be an action.
Irresolution is the time when you don’t know what to do. The time in which one “should I, should I not” or “what if” is considered.
Many people persist in their lack of determination, never tackle the matter and therefore often miss their greatest chances of success.
In all top positions, people with abilities are needed and in demand, with whom one can make a difference and achieve positive results. People who have “energy”, people who launch successful actions – ideas, concepts, strategies. Goals alone are not enough to be successful.
The most important thing is: determination and implementation.
It has been proven that those people are successful in life who can make quick decisions and who do not shirk themselves away from tackling something. To tackle an issue means to leave and give up one’s own comfort and convenience zone. It requires taking control and responsibility for what you do.
It requires energy.
Energy is the most direct and fastest way to successfully accomplish a goal.
The magic words are:
• “I can do it!”
• “I start immediately!”
• “I’ll do it now!” and
• “I’ll start now!”
Every positive expectation strengthens the willpower, the self-confidence and the readiness for total commitment.
If body and mind are convinced of the goal and also of the achievement of this goal and form a unity, success is guaranteed.
But if you postpone things over and over again, I have the impression that you don’t really want to do it.
It’s as if people are fooling themselves. You have a good intention and a good resolution, but you don’t set a specific time.
As the saying goes: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.
But if a person only makes plans, makes resolutions and constantly doubts and hesitates, he will be very dissatisfied with himself in the long run. One day he will recognize himself as a waverer.
One day he will have to admit to himself that he is not a “man of actions”, but only a “chatterer”.
And he will dwindle in his self-respect accordingly. He will not feel well in the long run. Not being balanced.
Having no inner harmony.
Only a person who acts, who successfully launches one action after another, will have respect for himself and be satisfied with himself.
Exercise 58:
Now copy the remaining uncompleted points from exercise 56 and ask yourself during the day which of them you seriously want to tackle, because you want to inspire your body for it.
At the end of the day, delete all those you don’t want to get excited about and complete the list with those things you want to get your body excited about.
Then you have a list of those things you want your body to become addicted to in a positive sense.
Supplement these things with the date when this “positive addiction” is to occur and implement the “attack” for these things accordingly.
Continued success with the implementation!
Recognition Unit 59:
The negative state of the law of action in relation to our inner harmony is called: Doubt!
Doubt, like fear and worry, is one of the main elements of negative thinking.
There is doubt in all people.
More, however, in the “negatively oriented” people. They doubt themselves, other people, their own actions. Own and foreign experiences and episodes are triggers for their distrust.
It is their fear of disappointment and the failure not to be able to fulfil their own or others’ expectations. Lack of self-confidence, insecurity and self-doubt are destructive forces for their personality and success in life.
Doubts, fears and worries are predominantly future-oriented.
Only a few are justified.
The vast majority never becomes reality and can neither be influenced nor controlled.
The justified doubt occurs when an idea, a plan, a goal, a project, an action has not been thought through to the conclusion. Legitimate doubts arise when an idea is to or will be implemented too quickly, when questions about successful implementation remain unanswered, when information, knowledge and “tools” for successful implementation are lacking.
Perhaps the individual or the team lacks the fire of enthusiasm, an inharmonious team has been put together or a negative attitude and mindset is present.
Doubt with people starts by asking questions:
• “Should I or should I not?”
• “I don’t know if I can do it”,
• “I don’t believe in success”,
• “Was it right to do it?”,
• “Did I make the right decision?”
• “We won’t reach the goal anyway”,
• “I doubt that …!”.
Successful people use doubt as a critical consideration of an instantaneous event, an expected situation, a planned activity.
Doubt activates their rational and emotional level of thinking and gives them the chance to look at things objectively and distantly.
Your personal doubts or doubts expressed by other people help to track down your own and other people’s “weak points” through negative “doubt arguments”.
However, they have also recognized that the breeding ground and amplifier of doubt are worries, uncertainty, fears, comfort zones, fear of the new and the unknown, lack of decisiveness, lack of optimism, low self-confidence, etc.
Whoever is capable of dissolving emerging negative emotions, taking responsibility, avoiding a prior condemnation of a situation, not giving justifications, is well on the way to taking away the effect of the negative power of doubt.
Exercise 59:
What can you do and how to do it to have more satisfaction, balance and inner peace?
Think about this question today (at work and at home) and find out your optimization potentials.
At the end of the day, make a list of those things you have been trying to do or discovered based on today’s knowledge unit regarding your satisfaction and inner peace.
Continued success with the implementation!
Recognition Unit 60:
How can you best implement the law of action while incorporating your inner harmony?
You should start small and move on with small steps.
If you gradually enforce things and set goals for yourself in small, concrete actions that your complete step by step, you will notice that you are gaining more and more strength and that the speed of implementation is becoming faster and faster.
You will learn to really enforce the things you set out to do.
Try to perform this resolution by May at the latest, if you are planning to do something on New Year’s Eve. Although you would have time the whole year for it, you will notice, how pleasant the feeling is, to fulfil the own expectation on the one hand and to exceed on the other hand.
This creates great inner harmony.
However, this is only possible if you have small goals at the beginning, if you start with small steps. Begin with very simple things that you set yourself, concrete, simple and always determine a time frame.
Make sure that you never exceed this time horizon. Let yourself be controlled by someone in the process (preferably someone who is more distant and authoritarian towards you – because he will spur you on even more).
It would now be important to do two or three things for the next week, only small but concrete things that you have not done before, that you have always postponed, but that you have wanted to do for a long time. And to do them in such a way that they are really done.
A resolution is only worth something if I formulate it in concrete terms.
A resolution like that:
“I will keep my promises in the future,” is too undefined and has less effect.
A resolution like that:
“I keep promises to my superior Mr. Mayer, who attaches great importance to it, as promised, so that he regards me as a reliable employee”, can produce results, because I see a concrete reaction.
The most important thing, then, is that the action is completely concrete on the table. All idealistic formulations hide the fact that you don’t actually do anything.
The second is the point in time.
I always have to set myself a point in time. Either when I want a project finished or when I want to start it at all.
And it is binding to keep to that date.
The time should be set realistically, not too close and not too far.
It should be controlled from the outside. Because it is easy to calculate that one likes to evade oneself. And we all have “something” within us that is called a “one’s inner weakness”… that should be taken into account.
Your inner harmony, your contentment with yourself, your balance gives you the necessary strength to tackle something self-confidently, deliberately and with certainty full of anticipation and enthusiasm. And this is already half the story for the successful completion of a project.
The more active you are, the more you are a “person of action” – the more success you will have and the greater your inner harmony will be.
The cycle closes.
Exercise 60:
Copy the list from exercise 59. Focus on 3 points of these unfinished business in relation to your inner harmony (those that are permanently realizable due to your current situation and from which you would probably benefit most) and tackle them TODAY.
Make sure that you choose the “attack” in such a way that habits can develop from it.
This means that you work on these “attacks” again and again over a longer period of time – until it has become your habit and works “on its own”.
Continued success with the implementation!
Cordial Congratulations…
You’ve worked through the LAW OF ACTION completely. Bravo !!!
and you’ll be redirected to the next law.
Have fun with the next law …
Great, now you have successfully completed this exercise and internalised another step of the 12 laws. With each law, you will become more self-confident, think more sustainably and in a solution-oriented way. Each step will enable you to take the initiative and make conscious decisions in the future. Because who, if not you, determines your path.
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