It All Starts by Taking Action

Consulting a dictionary, the word “Action” is one of those words that has a vast number of synonyms. The word itself sounds awesome, powerful, progressive, and easy to do, but why do so many people fail when they start taking action?

My passion for and challenge of running marathon races have taught me how to manage my running actions. Believe me when I say that it is extremely difficult to fulfill a marathon race (without torturing yourself) if all the actions or training sessions before the race day have not been in accordance with…….guess what…?……. the Plan!!!

Through experience and coaching, I have come to understand that my training plan, or Training Program, requires four key ingredients to successfully prepare me for the ultimate goal: the marathon race. I need distance training. Normally, I do my long runs on Saturdays or Sundays.

They can vary between 15 km (9.3 miles) and 35 km (21.8 miles), depending on where I am in the training program’s time cycle. During a full year, including all types of training, I typically cover around 2,010 km (1,250 miles). Secondly, I need to do interval training, which involves shorter distances at a high pace repeated several times, to get my body up to speed.

The third part covers running technique and hill training, and the fourth discipline—and this is important to remember—is the importance of gym workouts in building strength and flexibility in the muscles.

Always with action

Since I began my serious marathon training, I have meticulously tracked all my training sessions. With pride, I register that I have always finished all my races and have never suffered any injuries.

I can promise you that at kilometer 35 (21.8 miles), with 7 km (4.4 miles) still to go, you will be grateful to yourself for having a training program in place. When your whole body aches, your legs feel like tree trunks, and your bones feel like fragile, uncooked spaghetti, it’s reassuring to rely on a well-executed training program.

Different names for the same game.

As a humble upper-age marathon enthusiast trying to organize my passion for running through a professional Training Program, you will not need many seconds to understand the importance of proper training programs for all these incredible professional athletes and women out there who set new, unbelievable records every year.

If we compare any other activity in life to it, it’s all about the same. Where is the training program or the Action? It’s all the same with different names.

Famous entrepreneurs of our time, such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Larry Page, to name a few, should never have achieved what they did without Plenty of Action. For sure, action was not the only characteristic related to those gentlemen. But if the action hadn’t been there, the rest should have been a pure theory. It would never be mentioned in future history literature.

When I came across ModernWelthy, I didn’t look at the money or any “Rich Overnight” offer. What I first saw behind the curtains was a serious and feasible online business model that offers the opportunity to build your own business and the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world. Your laptop and an internet connection are the only working requisites.

Action before money and anything else

However, what made the most impact were two things: 1) ModernWealthy offers a comprehensive business system to handle your business properly and professionally from day one. 2) Wherever you are on the digital scale, ModernWealthty provides comprehensive Training, which is tremendously didactic and easy to follow.

My career started back when we still used telex to communicate with customers around the world. The fax machine was the first “revolution” in communication that I had the opportunity to witness firsthand. Then, entering the digital world was a thrilling challenge for me, even if PCs, iPads, and Smartphones have been daily working tools for the last decades. What I learned so far with SFM is amazing. Training modules are available for everyone. This is the Message Trigger, which marked the beginning of a change in my lifestyle.

Doing the Correct Things at the Right Time and Place.

Planning, training, action, and probably some more things make things happen. However, there is no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs around every corner. In my opinion, one fundamental ingredient is necessary—action and timing, or, in a more readable format, doing the Correct Things at the Right Time and Place.

During the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Bob Beamon set an incredible New World Record in the long jump by jumping 8.90 meters (29 ft 2 ½ in). What is so special about this record? Since the world record for the long jump was first set in 1901, the record has never been beaten by more than 15cm, and typically not for more than a few years after the previous world record.

Bob Beamon improved the record by 55cm, and it took 33 years for Mike Powell, who jumped 8.95 (only 5cm more) in 1991 in Tokyo, to surpass it. It’s been 25 years since then, and the record is still valid.

Undoubtedly, Bob Beamon had peaked his performance by training correctly before such an important event as the Olympic Games. He was in the right place, 2,300 meters above sea level, with thinner air, which produced less friction when he jumped. With the maximum allowed wind in the jumping direction of 2m/s, he also had the right timing.

Good Luck!

Sometimes we call this Good Luck. Was it by luck or by personal effort that Bob Beamon qualified to represent the U.S.A. in the Olympic Games? Was it by luck or a result of disciplined and organized training that Bob Beamon jumped 8.90m? Measure out 8.90m to determine its length. Was it good luck that he had the maximum wind flow in his favor? All of this can be discussed at length.

The sole purpose of this example is to demonstrate that good luck is not a magical force floating around in the air; when it strikes, it strikes. What we tend to call luck occurs when all the parts and pieces we have at our disposal are in perfect harmony with each other. In the world of sports, these athletes with a sense of “luck” are real professionals in control of all variables that can impact their performance.

Did Bill Gates succeed because of good luck? If you have read any books about him, the story tells us that he found it more interesting to help Harvard University improve its administrative system than to dedicate his time to studying the subjects for which he was there. Through endless and passionate work, he developed a system for “normal” people to enter the digital world. Windows was software created by Microsoft at a time when the digital world was about to take off.

Action is the name of the game

The same goes for Richard Branson, who started Virgin Airlines by getting his flight canceled and chartering a private airplane.

All the necessary variables for success were in place, but Windows would never see the light of day, and Virgin Airlines would never fly without Action.

Probably, you have come across situations in life where the opportunity is more or less obvious. What are the standard expressions? “One should do this and that,” “Imagine if it would be possible to take advantage of this,” and “If I had money”…. Can you relate to this? The missing part and keyword is Action, which is the “push-and-go” button for Entrepreneurs.

What comes first, the Plan or the Action? Both, but if there is no action, take it for granted that your plan will remain as a theory that never got the opportunity.