Short excerpt from a motivational talk by Townsend Wardlaw arguing that every outcome is produced by action. The speaker emphasizes that both doing and not-doing are results of actions (choices) and points listeners toward action-oriented advice available in books and online.
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What is true is that every single outcome or result that has ever been produced was the product of action. Right? Nobody ever built a company taking no action. Nobody ever made a million dollars taking no action. Nobody ever had a baby taking no action. You gotta have an action to take a baby. You also have to take an action to not have a baby. Right? I was talking to somebody earlier today. They didn't have kids. I said, well, you're not having kids as a result of actions you took that were not having a baby. You did other things instead of having a baby. Action. Go to any bookstore in the world or Amazon, and you know, you will never run out of possibilities for books that tell you what you need to do to produce the results that you want.