I had an interesting moment last night while attending my Martial Arts training,

My instructor made a comment that really hit home with me

“You can’t improve without doing, you must DO something to improve, no point just thinking about it”

What I found interesting about this, and the fact that really made this comment hit home to me, was that my martial arts instructor does not follow any particular personal development philosophy, if fact if I even mentioned the idea of personal development to him he would likely look at me strangely and ask what I was talking about.

But he is a successful person, running his own engineering business for many years and building up his martial arts club over the years to a membership of around 100 students and achieves all of his goals in life following this simple method,

You must get in there and do it and not wait around for it to happen

Now this is a concept that I see mentioned a lot in the better Personal development information I have looked at.
Yes you need to have a positive outlook and use affirmations, develop goal lists and all the rest, but the most important thing is you must DO something, you must move in the direction of what you want, no point waiting for it to happen

For people who are interested/believe in the “Law of attraction”, I’ve noticed in the last 6 months, nearly every resource on the LOA is now saying the same thing, you must believe in what you want and think about what you want, but you must also do something in the direction of what you want as well. I think the reason the Doing part is so necessary is that it is so deeply ingrained to us that to get something you need to do something, if we could shake this belief I guess we could just believe in something and receive it without having to do anything to get it, but this is not how our minds actually work at the end of the day we all believe most things in life require us to do something to get it, the LOA helps us achieve what we want, but to fully convince our minds it is actually going to happen we must do something towards that goal.