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Putting Action Behind Your Plan

Stefani Vader
2 min readAug 8, 2020

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Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

“Ideas without action are useless.” — Helen Keller

You can plan for years. You can dream for years, decades even. You scribble down your thoughts and ideas. You scratch out some, and change some others.

The problem is, you can plan so much that you lose sight of the dream.

“All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.” — Ghandi

Most people never see their dream realized, and that is because they get stuck in the planning stage.

I’m bound and determined not to do that.

I’m taking action, and I’m taking it now.

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso

I’ve had some big dreams for the last decade. I dreamed and I planned, and I talked about it. Thank goodness my husband took the first step for me. I didn’t have the courage to do it, yet he knew how important it was to me. When I hesitated, he stepped forward and made it happen.

Now the ball is in my court, and I’m not waiting any longer.

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define

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Stefani Vader
Stefani Vader

Written by Stefani Vader

Lover of reading and writing. Hater of retail work. Small fish in a big pond, learning as I go.

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