Why You Should Never Worry About Results, Preparations, or Plans — Only ACTION Matters

Have you ever noticed that the moments you feel the most anxious, depressed, or mentally overloaded are always the moments when you are thinking too much? There is a very simple reason for this: The major cause of almost all depression and anxiety in the world is the lack of action. Read that again. Then read it one more time. Because hidden inside this sentence is a truth that has the power to change your entire life. Whenever you spend hours, days, or even weeks thinking, worrying, planning, preparing, analyzing, predicting, visualizing or expecting, you generate nothing but:

• Anxiety
• Overthinking
• Self-doubt
• Paralysis
• Stress
• Fear of failure
• Loss of self-confidence

And the worst part? You produce ZERO tangible results. Only thoughts. Only mental stories. Only illusions.

1. The Silent Enemy: Expecting Results Before Taking Action

“Results” are nothing but a prediction your brain creates based on incomplete, half-baked information. Neuroscience proves this: 👉 The brain consumes around 20% of your total energy even when you’re doing nothing. 👉 Mental predictions consume just as much energy as solving real problems. So when you sit and imagine results — future success, future failure, future possibilities — your brain is burning energy, releasing stress hormones like cortisol, and exhausting itself over information that does not even exist yet. And here’s the psychological truth: Expectations always change. They are never constant. As you start working on something:

• Some days you feel confident
• Some days you feel hopeless
• Some days you feel excited
• Some days you feel scared

So the “results” you imagine today will be different from what you imagine tomorrow. This inconsistency kills motivation, builds fear, and weakens your decision-making power. This is why people quit. Not because they are incapable — but because their imagined results drain their emotional stamina.

2. Why Over-Planning Destroys 90% of People Before They Even Begin

You’ve been told your whole life: “Plan everything ahead.” “Make a roadmap.” “Think before you act.” But look around — How many master planners actually succeed? Very few. Why? Because a plan is based on your current knowledge, but your knowledge itself changes every day. As you learn more:

• Your goals change
• Your priorities shift
• Your skills evolve
• Your ideas transform
• Your personality grows

This means: Every plan becomes outdated the moment you grow. This is not a theory — it is psychological fact. Harvard’s research on goal-setting shows that most people abandon their plans halfway because life changes faster than plans do. And here’s the biggest flaw of planning: 👉 If one part of the plan fails, people assume the entire plan has failed. They quit. They change direction. They start a new plan. Then leave that halfway too. This cycle continues forever.

3. The Trap of Endless Preparation

Preparation is essential — but it is also dangerous. Why? Because without a deadline, preparation becomes an excuse for delaying action. Psychologists call this: Preparation Paralysis — the illusion of progress without real progress. Examples?

• People who buy gym shoes, gym clothes, gym bottles… but never go to the gym.
• Students who highlight textbooks in five colors but never study the material.
• Creators who spend weeks researching equipment but never upload a video.

Preparation feels good because it gives you a false sense of achievement. But unless you put a time limit, preparation becomes infinite. Every successful person in history shares one principle: Prepare well. But START anyway — even if preparation feels incomplete. Because action teaches you more than preparation ever will.

4. The Truth of Life: There Are No Rules

We are taught: “If you prepare well, you will succeed.” “If you plan well, things will work out.” But life is not a computer game. There are no fixed rules. You can prepare for years and still fail. You can be unprepared and still stumble into success. Why? Because outcomes are influenced by:

• Timing
• Luck
• Environment
• People
• Market
• Opportunities
• Divine force
• Nature
• Circumstances

Even the greatest inventors, athletes, scientists, artists, and entrepreneurs admit that success is not always logical. No matter how much you plan, nature still has the final say.

5. The Only Thing That Produces Tangible Results: ACTION

Everything else — planning, thinking, preparing, visualizing, predicting — belongs to the mind. But action belongs to the physical world. And only action produces physical results. Let’s look at facts: 📌 Fact 1: Neuroscience proves that action in fact rewires the brain faster than thinking. 📌 Fact 2: Behavioral psychology shows that motivation comes AFTER action, not before. 📌 Fact 3: The world’s top performers say the same thing: “Start before you’re ready.” 📌 Fact 4: Taking action tremendously reduces anxiety because your brain shifts from prediction mode to problem-solving mode. 📌 Fact 5: The more you act, the more confidence you build — not the other way around.

6. Why Most People Stay Stuck for Years

People believe they have a time problem. They don’t. They have an action problem. They read motivational quotes. They watch productivity videos. They make plans. They write goals. They visualize outcomes. But they rarely act consistently. This is why nothing changes.

7. The Unchangeable Law of Success

After hundreds of books, thousands of interviews, decades of research, one truth stands tall: Action is the only key to success. Not talent. Not luck. Not intelligence. Not money. Not planning. Not preparation. Just consistent action, even if it is imperfect, even if it is small, even if it is messy. Because: Action creates momentum. Momentum creates progress. Progress creates results. Results create confidence. Confidence creates success. Everything else is noise.

Final Insight

You will never know if your plan is good until you finish it. You will never know if your preparation is enough until you start. You will never know what results you will get until you act. So stop worrying about the results. Stop obsessing over plans. Stop drowning in preparation. Because in the end, life rewards only ONE thing: TANGIBLE RESULTS — and tangible results come from ACTION. —- Originally published on ShitizSays.com and reproduced here with the author’s permission.