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Look at CEO’s of big companies or business executives traveling around the world in the pursuit of expanding their businesses. There are many inventors who have achieved almost “impossible” inventions. All these people decided to speak by actions and not by words. They know that small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

They got a spark in their brain to go ahead with something they liked to pursue, and they didn’t wait for anyone to give them a kick start. They didn’t brag to others about what they were going to do. They believed that results count by the perfection of the action performed and not by the beauty of the words said.

Take any person you think of as successful. You can see that they all have this important habit in common: they prefer to a do a good job instead of just talking about it. I see a reflection of this habit in almost all of the great people I have read about. I am sure that my readers would concur with me.

Recently I was reading a book called Unstoppable by Cynthia Kersey. It is a compilation of short stories about 45 people who went ahead to achieve their life passions despite the difficulties they had to face. One of the biggest characteristics they showcased was that they were people who spoke by actions and not by words.

Just think for a moment. How many of us have a habit of saying “I will do that,” “I will do this,” but later end up doing nothing. We all have lots of ideas and dreams. But how many of them are turned into reality? Ideas come and go, but we just remain the same. One idea or one million ideas that never ship are worth $0. We also like to exaggerate.

When we explain something we are doing, we say it as if we are doing a very great job and end up saying “I am doing this,” “I am doing that,” “I have completed that,” “I have completed this,” and the list goes on, but the truth is that we might not even have started the task. There are many reasons why our actions and words don’t match each other. Here are a few of them:

(1) Loving praise: We always like someone praising us. If someone says something nice about us, we tend to feel very happy. This is a fact that can’t be denied

When we crave more praise, we try to tell everyone that we will be doing such and such a thing, but since we don’t have the
enough motivation to make it happen, those words are never converted to actions.

( 2 ) Procrastination and Laziness:

Sometimes , we really want to do things, but we tend to put them off. In the morning, we decide to do it in the afternoon. In the afternoon, we decide to do it in the evening. And in the evening,we have enough other work that we decide to do it the next day

The next day never usually comes. Why wait for tomorrow when you can do it today?

(3) Weak passion: We might want to do many things, but the passion in us is not so strong enough to make it happen. When we speak about it, we are very passionate. But we lost that passion when it comes time to make it happen.

(4) Saying YES when you should be saying NO: We might have enough things in our plate and we know that we don’t have time to do more. But when we get a help request, or request for volunteering for something, we say yes. This adds to the pile of tasks we have to complete and we end up unable to honor our other commitments.

In a world where words are thrown around haphazardly, it seems much more sensible that we all put our energy into actions, rather than promises.

Real innovators don’t just talk about doing things but go out and do them. They know that small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.