A Guide to Being in Action （下）

A Guide to Being in Action （下）

By Leo Babauta

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Create Daily Structure

Once you’re connected and committed to that possibility, it’s important to have some structure. Some examples:

A schedule with blocks for your meaningful tasks
Accountability(əˌkoun(t)əˈbilədē) with a group of people
A session at 10am every day where you write for an hour
A video call every day at 8am with an accountability partner, where you do 2 hours of focused work on the call together
A commitment to check in with a coach, and a consequence for not doing your commitment

What structure will help you be in action? Create it for yourself, and then train.

Train Your Action Muscle

This is the important part: you can connect to possibility and be committed, create a structure … but then you have to actually put it into action. Nothing else matters but this.

So train yourself for a week, and each day be in action. Be doing stuff. Get shit done.

Take on the hard tasks, in small chunks. Check things off your list, while feeling the meaning and possibility you’re creating.

Be in action, over and over, and you’ll train the action muscle.

After a week, review: how did it go? What needs to be adjusted? What did you learn? How can you keep the training going?

So with this in mind: what would you like to commit to today?

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