<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/action-difference-maker.png" width="238" height="323" alt="Action is the difference maker" class="alignleft" />“I can’t do this anymore!” The words ringed in my ear over and over again. “I’m too tired. I need to take a break. Besides, I&#8217;ve done enough already.” Rationalizations poured out of me like vomit. With every sentenced, my back dropped lower into my chair.</p>
<p>My right hand slowly reached for the mouse. My left went for the keyboard. I typed in “youtube” and it was all over. Taking action was never my strong suit. As a kid, I made a habit out of doing everything in the last possible moment. I did my homework 30 minutes before going to school. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/04/my-unnecessarily-long-and-difficult-journey-towards-becoming-an-action-taker/" title="Permanent Link: My unnecessarily long and difficult journey towards becoming an action taker" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2158,"date":"2014-04-05T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2021-05-08T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T23:02:09","slug":"my-unnecessarily-long-and-difficult-journey-towards-becoming-an-action-taker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/04\/my-unnecessarily-long-and-difficult-journey-towards-becoming-an-action-taker\/","title":{"rendered":"My unnecessarily long and difficult journey towards becoming an action taker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/action-difference-maker.png\" width=\"238\" height=\"323\" alt=\"Action is the difference maker\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>\u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore!\u201d The words ringed in my ear over and over again. \u201cI\u2019m too tired. I need to take a break. Besides, I&#8217;ve done enough already.\u201d Rationalizations poured out of me like vomit. With every sentenced, my back dropped lower into my chair.<\/p>\n<p>My right hand slowly reached for the mouse. My left went for the keyboard. I typed in \u201cyoutube\u201d and it was all over. Taking action was never my strong suit. As a kid, I made a habit out of doing everything in the last possible moment. I did my homework 30 minutes before going to school. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/04\/my-unnecessarily-long-and-difficult-journey-towards-becoming-an-action-taker\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: My unnecessarily long and difficult journey towards becoming an action taker\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}