The difference between great people and everyone else is that, great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Here are some beautiful thoughts derived from the book, Goals by Gary Ryan Blair.

The odds that we'll succeed without taking action are about the same as winning the lottery without buying a ticket!

For those times when we feel trapped, stressed, or in a prison of our own making, let's take purposeful action. It's our get-out-of-jail-free card.

We can't just stick out our thumb and hitchhike our way to success, we've got to roll up our sleeves and do the work that needs to be done.

Let's be seduced by the attractiveness of our goal. Inaction leads to impotence. Taking purposeful action immunizes us from "Goal Parkinson's," a long, slow goodbye to our dreams, talents and destiny.

A quality life is accomplished when thoughtful attention, goal setting, and purposeful action click into position. Whether our dream is to be or not to be is largely dependent upon our actions.

The cure for the ills of procrastination is a heavy prescription of action, until the day arrives when our dreams and their achievement are one in the same. When that day arrives, dream bigger dreams and take more action.

A good plan will almost always get us in the door, but it is action that seals the deal. Let's not tiptoe toward our goal but walk confidently before it waltzes off into the arms of neglect. Dreams become reality through one simple mode of transportation: purposeful action.

The continuation of bad habits, such as procrastination and poor follow through, is like having an addiction to weapons of mass destruction.

It is tragically un-hip to procrastinate. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people never display their true potential; it never has an opening night...never makes a debut.

The bulk of potential resides deep within each individual just waiting to come out, and it stays there because people are afraid. The mechanics of achieving a goal makes it easy for people to relate to the necessity of action. But when action is not purposeful, it can be an Achilles heel.

When we operate without planning, we remain forever scattered and confused. You're always busy, but not much gets accomplished. Without a deeper appreciation and application of planning the most we can expect is marginal improvement.

When we set a goal, there's a distance between our current reality and desired reality. Procrastination increases the distance and minimizes the chances of achievement. Procrastination is the mother of regret. It postpones the future, aborts liftoff at the last minutes.

We will never attain our goals simply by thinking and talking about them. We must take action as all success comes down to execution. Unless we take action to achieve our goals, life becomes a constant series of postponements, cancellations, and missed opportunities.

We will never attain our goals simply by thinking and talking about them. We must take action as all success comes down to execution.

Select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action. Action makes more fortune than caution.

Tim