Sitting here and bored out of my mind will be the resulting feeling if I don’t get up and put feet to where I need to go. That resulting feeling plus many months compiled onto the same habit of inaction may cause me to resent myself and get depressed because I will feel so lost and wonder why nothing is happening in my life; wondering why nobody seems to call me back; wondering why I can only find time to send résumés to two people; wondering why I lack the energy and confidence to get anything done.

Too many people literally give their selves excuse after excuse in order to keep from doing anything at all. They seem to work very hard at keeping away from work. I had a friend that once complained, “These people work harder trying to figure a way out of work, than they do just trying to work at all!”

That statement can be taken in two ways. For one, we should always be trying to figure out how to make things more efficient and more productive using less man-hours as possible. It’s what frees us to be creative and driving at new initiatives that make the world go ‘round. It’s what frees us, period!

On the other hand, it can be taken in such a way, where people are just not putting in effort towards the objective at hand. If they’re not investing effort towards what needs to happen, and are applying more effort towards doing nothing, then I would say that person is not inspired by what needs to happen.

Inspiration is so important!

If you are missing the inspiration, then you are not going to get anywhere with the energy and confidence you need. You need to get inspired first, and then come back to talk about moving forward. That’s when the excitement jump starts you, and lights a fire underneath your feet.

Tony Robbins once said, “People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals; or goals that do not inspire them.”

Not being inspired is the biggest killer of action. Get inspired, produce your plan of action and launch! You’ll hear many people blame this on an assumed condition called analysis paralysis, and I can understand this in my own detailed personality type. But what I find is that the only thing someone is analyzing when they are using that excuse is whether or not they are “inspired enough” to see their visions come to life.

Analytical heroes bring a great strength to our world and many businesses, but should pay very close attention to not keep that very strength from allowing them to move forward.

Make your blueprints, build your boat just enough to where it can float, and get out there and sail! Doing this, and you can leverage all the precision and expertise you need to adjust your sails and build on to your deck along the way.