Action!

Action!

Consulting a dictionary, the word “Action” is one of these words having a huge number of synonyms. The word as such sounds awesome, powerful, progressive, and easy to do, but why do so many people fail when they start to take action?

My passion and challenge to run marathon races have taught me how to deal with 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 know that my training plan, or Training Program, needs four different ingredients to successfully prepare me for the final 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 normally make something around 2,010km (125 miles). Secondly, I need to do interval training, shorter distances at a high pace repeated several times, to get the body up to speed.

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

Always with action

Since I started my serious marathon training, I have monitored all my training sessions in detail. 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 7km (4.4 miles) still to go, you are grateful to yourself that you had a training program in place. When your whole body sores, your legs feel like tree trunks, and your bones feel like fragile un-boiled spaghetti, it’s like a sense of security 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 by using a professional Training Program, you will not need many seconds to understand the importance of proper training programs for all these incredible professional sportsmen and women out there who register 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 in our time, like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Larry Page, to name just a few, never should 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 the Six Figure Mentors, I didn´t look at the money or any “Rich-over-Night” – offer. What I first saw behind the curtains was a serious and feasible online business model offering the opportunity to build your own business and the flexibility to be wherever you want on the planet to do the work. Your laptop and an internet connection are your only needed working requisites.

Action before money and anything else

However, what made the most impact were two things: 1) SFM is offering a complete business system to handle your business properly and professionally from day one. 2) Wherever you are on the digital scale, SFM gives you comprehensive Training 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” on the communication side I had the opportunity to see launched live. 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. There are training modules for everything and everyone. This is the Message Trigger, which was the start of the change in my lifestyle.

Doing the Correct Things at the Right Time and Place.

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

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

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

Undoubtedly, Bob Beamon had peaked his performance by training the correct way before such an important event as the Olympic Games. He was at the right place, 2,300 meters above sea level with thinner air, producing less friction when jumping. 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 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 understand how much it is. Was it good luck that he had the maximum wind flow in his favor? Well, all this can be discussed over and over again.

The only goal of this example is to show that good luck is nothing magical floating around in the air, and when it hits, it hits. 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 “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 what he was there to study. 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 daylight, 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.