On the first or second day I got a chance to meet Tom Beal and I asked him what advice he’d give to someone attending their first seminar. He said “find one take away from the conference”. Just that one idea that can move you forward. Don’t go trying to get over complicated.

During the weekend in San Antonio I had the fortune and opportunity to spend some time with my mentor Jason Oman (of JasonOman.com). The most important thing that I learned was about the questions you ask yourself. Jason and I were at dinner with a couple of other people and we were discussing this person’s background and their business model. Jason came up with this awesome headline. Everyone at the table was like wow! How did you come up with that? He said he asked himself what kind of headline would I need to to see to make me want to click on the subscribe button without me even thinking or knowing about it. Yeah, you’ve just read this headline and are like wow, i’ve got to see that and the mouse moves over to the link and clicks on it before you even know it. It’s like you’ve been hypnotized.

A couple weekends ago I attended the Focus 4 The Future Seminar in Seattle. That was another awesome event where I had a chance to meet a lot of people and just hang out and pick the minds of some of the internet’s top experts. We’ll be going over more of that in an upcoming post. Anyways, the one big take away that I had was from Sterling Valentine (of jvformula.com). In his presentation he said something that was fairly simple but very profound.

He said, “knowledge is information. action is power.”

Wait…did you get that, that is very powerful. I’m going to say it again

“knowledge is information. action is power.”

We are taught that knowledge is power. It really isn’t until you actually do something with that knowledge. I have been an info junkie, reading and studying everything that I could get my hands on. So I had lots of knowledge. So where was the power? hmm…not enough or no action was taken so there were no results. That’s right action is the key to everything. You can think and plan all day, but if you don’t take the action nothing will happen.

Here’s another way of putting it that I’ve heard before. You can study a stocks, analyze everything and pick out the best stock in the world. It will double in a year for sure. But if you don’t actually sit down and log in to your brokerage account online and hit the BUY button all that knowledge and information is useless.

What action do you need to be taking today?

Do it now!

Don’t wait until tomorrow, or the next day. You won’t ever do it. I’ve been in the exact same situation. Oh I’ll work on that tomorrow. 2 weeks go by, no results no action. 1 month it’s still on my list of things to do…still no action. I might as well not have written it down. I’m sure you’ve felt that way as well.

Just Do It!

Ok so we’ll summarize for today.

1. Ask yourself thought provoking or stretching questions. It’s the key. You won’t find the answers unless you ask the right questions.

2. Get into action. Information and knowledge is useless if it is not applied. Go take some action with whatever you’ve got and do it. Go make a big mess of it, screw up, you’ll learn more than you ever did just sitting on the sidelines.