The Ultimate Action Question

If I gave you the following three choices, which would you take:

1. The slow path to success or the fast path?
2. The hard path to success or the easy path?
3. The boring path to success or the fun path?

I am pretty sure that you would choose fast, easy and fun. Unless, of course, you are trapped by an idea that if you haven’t worked hard or struggled then you haven’t earned it.

Now, even the fast/easy/fun path to success requires effort and application, but as far as achievement goes, there is always a faster, easier, more enjoyable path to success.

It is your job to find it.

This is the essence of smart action. That is, having the greatest impact on making your dreams a reality in the least amount of time, for the least amount of effort, with the greatest amount of fun.

The least amount of time

There is always a slow and a fast path to success. If you do not consciously seek a faster path your default response will be to take a slower path and then tell yourself that this is the nature of success. Wrong! There is always a faster path to success waiting to be discovered. And if you don’t know it, others will because you can be sure that someone else at some point has attempted the journey you are taking successfully and that they have learned the critical lessons along the way.

The least amount of effort

The default response for most people is to put much more effort into achievement than they need to. This is because they don’t differentiate between taking action and understanding the few actions that really have a dramatic impact on their results. From a purely impact perspective, 95% of most peoples’ effort is wasted doing to much of the wrong things for success rather than focusing on identifying and applying the precious few.

The most amount of fun

Just because you need to do some work to succeed doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be fun. As far as success goes, it can be as much fun as you choose to make it. Just because others suffer and struggle doesn’t mean you have to. It is not compulsory. It is not a right of passage. It is just a bit of cultural baggage that too many people subscribe to.

A Creative Jolt – The Ultimate Action Question

So how do you jump yourself on to the faster/easier/more fun path to achievement? It is all in the possibility questions that you ask yourself. Consider the ultimate action question:

If it was possible to be successful in half the time, with half the effort, and twice the fun, how would I do that?

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