Why You Don’t Take Action (and What to Do About It)

How I’ve made progress in taking action by systematically removing every reason I have not to

There are several internal and external blocks to taking meaningful steps to improve our lives. Fortunately, every obstacle has a work around. Shutterstock

My relationship with taking action has changed in the past two years.

About two years ago, my wife and I decided to start a blog to document all that we were learning and experimenting with in our lives. Since that decision, made on a long car ride together, we’ve published more than 100 blog posts and written more than 100,000 words—enough to fill nearly two books.