Be a doer not a talker! 5 tips to emerge a winner in 2016
If you ask me what is the secret ingredient to achieving anything of importance in life, my answer would be action. It’s above everything else because you can talk about ways to deal with things, come up with plans, feel bad or good, complain or laugh, dance or limp your way around things but if you don’t act nothing can ever happen. Without exception everybody fails in their lives, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world.
There are broadly two kinds of people in this world—the talkers and the doers. The talkers talk all the way but get nothing done. They always want to do things but never do. They either live in the past or in the future, but never in the present. They have one reason or the other to not do something or postpone things. Action seems to be missing in their lives.
The doers, on the other hand, are the ones who get things done. They don’t like to talk too much but would like their action to speak for them. They go about their life doing one task at a time, and they do it better than anyone else. They don’t care what others are doing or saying. And in the process, they help others around them and become a team player and a go-to person of the group. These are the kind of people you would like to associate yourself with wherever you go, and you must consider yourself lucky to be in the company of doers, because these are the people who run your team, your family, your company and even the world. Talking doesn’t run this world, doing does.
Ofcourse, we have a category who does both, talking and doing. In fact, it’s also important to have effective communication to succeed in a task but the point we are driving home here is action. Whether you can talk or not, doesn’t matter. What matters is, whether you can act or not. The ability or the inability to act, differentiates these two categories.
Here comes the good news! While it’s true that a doer can degrade to become a talker (if he/she loses motivation), a talker can also become a doer if he/she truly desires. How then can one emerge as a winner by becoming a doer rather than ending up a talker? Can 2016 be different for you? Yes, it can. Let’s try to follow few simple and basic steps...
Identify whether you are a talker or a doer
All said and done, who am I? A talker or a doer? Here’s a very practical approach to finding where you stand currently.
Try maintaining two lists:
• To-do list
• Done list
Keep adding your tasks—be it work related, personal, hobbies, extra-curricular activities, and whatever it is that you wish to do. Tasks could be completing a book that you always wanted to finish, or taking time out to take your parents for a nice dinner, or coming up with a new product idea for your company, or meeting a deadline at office. It’s important to note that the items on your done list are far more valuable than the items in your to-do list, because they are not done yet, and until things don’t get done they have zero value.
You are a doer if more and more tasks are getting done on a weekly basis. You are a talker if you see your to-do list is getting bulkier. Now, it’s your choice as to who you want to become; the balance between your to-do list and done list is your yardstick to measure yourself. Before jumping into any conclusion whether this will work or not, try it yourself for a few weeks!
Do what you love and love what you do
One critical ingredient of being a doer is motivation. That’s exactly why it’s important to work for a cause, a job or an idea that you love. Else you tend to get demotivated sooner or later, and end up as a talker. Perhaps you always wanted to do something in your life but never had the guts or an opportunity to do so. Be it going for a world tour, or starting your new venture—2016 could be your year. But only if you decide to stop talking and starting doing! Just do it, silly!
Remember what our original gangsta Tuca told us in the cult movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly— “When you have to shoot. Shoot. Don’t t
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