The Need for Execution in Abundance of Knowledge

For the last 2 years, I have been in the depth of the productivity genre in parallel software development, thousands of lines of pure productivity wisdom.

Here is one of the most important topics I have ever learnt. 

Abundance of Resources

Over the last 2 decades, resources on the internet have been breaking the roof and exploded into almost 60% of the people worldwide. If you are reading this post, you fall into these lucky 60% of people who have access to the internet.

Books and Courses have been more abundant than ever and more accessible regardless of any weird factors that were present in the last century. Economic stability is better than ever and resources are cheaper than they could have ever been.

Still, the ratio of execution of facts is mostly the same.

America’s Obesity Crisis (Rest of the World is not too far)

Here is an example of what I mean.

When I did a quick Google search about “books for getting slim and living healthy“, it serves with popular books like The Obesity Code, Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About and some not-so-popular books like Run Fat B*tch Run.

Apart from these, I have personally seen thousands of blog posts just on Medium about getting slim and beating obesity. Millions of people are writing and recording videos on healthy living and fitness.

The resources are more than ever, and a thousand times more than what anyone needs to know to get slimmer.

Yet, the U.S.A. suffers from a 42.8% obesity crisis while I write this article.

Is the Internet hard to access? No.

Is GYM equipment hard to buy? No.

Is it unavailable? Certainly not.

Still, the number seems to be increasing day by day.

So what does this mean for your productivity?

No matter how many resources you have, if there is a lack of execution, nothing is ever gonna happen.

In the 42.8% of people suffering from obesity, some people have bet the crisis and went on to become healthier than ever. The reason behind it is not economic factors, more books have been read by them, they follow more blogs than anyone, etc. It’s just execution.

Enough resources and steady execution can beat procrastination. The is no magic pill for getting started. The first leap towards getting things done in real is the key.

Ideas are not enough, you need Execution

We all have great ideas every day. Do it for a year and you have 365 great ideas.

Let’s consider that 3 of them are life-changing. You don’t need 3 of them to get executed, one of them is just enough to lift you.

Still, most of us are on the same track.

So the great ideas are not the problem, execution is the issue here.

Most of us end up waiting for that next big idea that will change our lives forever. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.

Ideas don’t change your life, it’s the execution of that one idea that makes the difference.

Book Recommendations for this Newsletter

I am starting this new section where recommend one book for each newsletter.

The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett

This has been one of the best reads of this summer. Steven explains 33 laws of business and life from his experience as a multi-millionaire startup owner and has interviewed hundreds of people in his podcast: The Diary of a CEO.