BRX Pro Tip: Learning is Good. Taking Action is Better
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, talk to me a little bit about your perspective on the gap – it’s the only way I know to represent it – between knowledge around something and getting the result that you’re after. There’s something missing in the middle.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. And the thing that’s missing is taking action. You know, everybody knows learning is important and a lot of people, they’re proudly telling you, “Oh. Every year, I read a book a week.” Or in our case, like we’ve recorded thousands of Pro Tips and we’ve had people listen to hundreds or all of them, and they check a box that say, “Look, I’m learning. Look, I’m learning.” And it’s great to learn, but if you’re not taking any action, then you’re kind of wasting your time in a lot of ways.
Lee Kantor: And to just kind of get all this knowledge and wisdom and not execute on any of it, you’re kind of wasting your time. So, it’s much better to say if something resonates with you, if some tip is like, “Oh, that’s interesting,” don’t just file it away. Just take action on it today. And you don’t have to take a big action. Just take a small action and just see if you get any traction from it. You know, just the hint of traction you get from a nugget that you’ve learned, then double down on that, and do it a little more and see if you get even more. And if you do that regularly, then you have a chance to really grow.
Lee Kantor: But you can’t grow without putting some of these concepts into play to see if they’re going to work for you. And you know, as an experiment, you want to err on the side of taking action for a while to see if you get any traction, to see if you can get to a new level instead of just filing things away going, “Oh. Future me will do that. Future me will take that action later.” Take the action now. Make things happen today. Don’t wait.
