Doing

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - The fortune in my fortune cookie.

Note, my fortune cookie did not say:

"The great pleasure in life is reading about doing what people say you cannot do."

Or:

"The great pleasure in life is planning to do what people say you cannot do."

It's easy to mistake doing for things that seem like doing, planning and reading are 2 of the biggest culprits.

Want to get a top 1% physique? Reading about all the best diets and workout plans, and planning a meticulous meal plan for many months at a time sounds great... but the follow-through is where the real work is done. Even if you end up sticking with the meal plan as specified, it may be too few or too many calories, but those are all details that need to be flushed out after the doing begins.

Want to make the next Angry Birds, Snapchat or Words with Friends? Reading about building an application, and planning out an exact schedule sounds great... but it rarely ever follows the plan, because you don't know what you don't know. How should it react if the internet is down, the device is low on memory, the device has an incredibly small screen, or the user is visually impaired? Those aren't things that will crop up in your plans.

So listen to my fortune cookie, and start doing something that people say you cannot do.