Stephen Pierce on 6 Actions That Can Change Your Life




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Summary: Change Your Life with These Six Types Of Success Actions<br> Today’s episode is going to discuss the different types of actions that are available that can change your life and accelerate your success. There is so much more to taking action than just going out and doing something and that’s what the focus of this episode is all about.<br> Let’s Talk About Cause and Effect<br> Actions can be put into different categories with the understanding that if you take a certain action you’ll achieve a certain result. The action can cause a problem or it can cause an opportunity and you generally don’t take an action that is going to cause a problem. Every problem and opportunity has some kind of effect associated with it.<br> There are things you need to take into consideration when dealing with cause and effect. For example, planting an acorn is supposed to equal an oak tree. This is the cause and effect, but if you plant an acorn in the desert you’re not going to get an oak tree.<br> What I want to focus on is particular actions that relate to ‘cause problems and effects’ and ‘opportunities and effects’.<br> Hindsight is 20/20<br> When you consider hindsight you’re looking at an action you took that caused something to happen. This action may have caused a certain problem and you had to take what is called a corrective action. You can change your life by taking a corrective action to make sure you don’t repeat or start developing a pattern. One of the first actions you need to take is corrective action.<br> If you look in hindsight and you see there is a certain effect that has already taken place because of something you’ve done or something someone else has done, you’ll need to take what is called an adaptive action. You can change your life by taking an action to adapt to certain effects that have already taken place. An example of an adaptive action that you see all the time are changes in technology and the internet.<br> Corrective action and adaptive action are two actions you use based on hindsight and the can change your life.<br> To summarize you use corrective action to prevent that cause from happening again and you use adaptive action to adapt to what is changing in your environment based on effects that have taken place.<br> There are other actions you need to look at also. You can look into the future and take preventative action. This is where you ensure certain things won’t happen. You can also take contingency action.<br> Contingency action can change your life because it’s based on foresight and taking action on what might happen. Below is an example of contingency action.<br> You walk into an office building and you see a no smoking sign. In terms of action, the no smoking sign is a preventative action. It is to prevent people from smoking in the building and causing a fire. If someone decided they were going to smoke in the building and a fire took place, there are fire extinguishers in the building. The existence of the fire extinguishers is the contingency action. What if the fire took place? The existence of automatic sprinklers is an example of adaptive action because the environment will automatically adapt to the fire and smoke in the building and trigger the sprinklers.<br> There are two more actions that can change your life that I want to discuss and these are promoting actions and exploiting actions.<br> Promoting actions are something that you proactively and deliberately do to promote an opportunity of some kind. This could be to sell a product, generate more sales, get more customers or more partners. Promoting action is where you take a specific action while looking to promote an opportunity.<br> When you look at the opportunity, what are the effects of the opportunity that you can actually exploit? Exploiting <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">action</a>, in this instance, is in a positive way.