From Deciding to Doing

Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing.

Statistics from the American Society for Training and Development show that the likelihood of a person attaining a goal (moving from deciding to doing) breaks down as follows:

Hear an idea -10%
Consciously decide to adopt an idea - 25%
Decide when they will do it - 40%
Plan how they will do it - 50%
Commit to someone else that they’ll do it - 65%
And when they have a specific accountability appointment with the person they have committed to – 95% actually achieve the goal.