Action is staking a claim to something.
Action is a means of taking ownership.
When you move first (on a project, on an idea) you mark a territory as yours.
You require others to say “hey wait a minute, we were going to….”
Maybe they were going to, but you did first.
In the words of Karim Rashid, ““Never say ‘I could have done that’ because you didn’t.”
The words of an influential person are never valued to until they’ve actually done something to change people’s lives for the better. Action matters. Politicians today should heed this law of behavior.