The Hidden Costs of Not Taking Action + Journal Prompts + Mentorship

One strategy is to avoid what you need to do and then spend lots of energy trying to find out why you are avoiding it. This is a great way to continue to avoid taking action. Another strategy is to assume you need to feel like doing something before you do it.

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” - Meister Eckhart, German mystic

By postponing, you set the stage for a drama of crisis at a later date.

The result: you experience heightened emotional reactions, such as anxiety or fear – and that makes you procrastinate from making a career decision for even longer. You feel worse, and so you do less. Most of us have experienced struggles of this kind. But the good news is that the cycle can be broken, and the fog of uncertainty eliminated.