Learning self-command is the key to harnessing the power of your action. If you invest in your ability to take action your return on your investment will be success. I have often talked to clients who find they want to accomplish a desired goal that will move them further in their business, life or health and yet they do not seem to be able to get started or continue. Some of the people I have spoke with start a goal, get half way there and stop. They have told me that they have had this habit for most of their lives. They tell me they see themselves as procrastinators.

I think that they learned a habit of quitting. I think that people have learned unhealthy habits that can sabotage their dreams and goals. I also believe that with a little self-command you can break the habit or cycle of quitting by taking small action steps. This will help retrain your brain to finish. Take a project, preferably a small project and just complete it. While you are completing the task, make note or write down what it is that you are telling yourself while you do it. This will give you clues as to when your thinking begins to sabotage your efforts.

Sometimes you can think that you must know more before you start. Sometimes you may be saying to yourself that you do not know what to do next or you may just say to yourself that you are not smart enough. Whatever you are saying to yourself is key because when you say something to yourself you create a chemical cocktail that gets poured into your systems and your body and mind begin to feel the effects of what you are telling yourself. You either feel empowered or impaired.

For instance if you are saying to yourself, "I don’t know what to do, I don’t know where to look" "I don’t know how to fix this," all of these statements shut your drive and your enthusiasm down. These are chemicals you expose yourself too from your thinking process. They do not enhance brain function or drive the solution driven part of your being. Your action ability automatically gets dampened.

When you begin retraining your brain to empower your action, you will learn to have more success because you will be investing in your actions with self-command. When you use self-command you become aware of what you are saying to yourself. You do not just let any old thought occupy your thinking. You examine that thought and determine if it is beneficial to you, your body and the project you want to complete. If it is not then you use a power thought to negate the affects of the poisonous self sabotaging thought you just exposed yourself to.

Investing wisely in your thinking while you are taking an action will help you learn to manage your mind. Managing your mind is the most powerful tool you can have, when taking action and completing a goal. Learn to invest in the action of your mind and you will have success.