I facilitate workshops on healthy living and each week we have people make an action plan for something they want to achieve. Losing weight would not be accepted, because we have not see you losing weight. You would have to name what you are going to do, to lose that weight, such as stop eating bread, or walk a mile 3 days a week.
An action plan includes what you will do, when you will do it,
how often you will do it. Losing weight then is the result of your action plan. Do you want to try making an action plan to achieve your goal?
For getting a hair cut, in the workshop, the action plan would go like this... say "get my hair cut" and then, what day you will do that. For a haircut, instead of how often, you might say how much hair will be cut off. Or you might say Wednesday I will call for an appointment.
This can sound annoying to many people but it works almost like magic. Action plans usually result in getting this done. Sometimes they do not. A person may find walking is not a good idea, so the facilitator will ask, how do you want to change the action plan so it will work for you?
Perhaps you want to go to a gym and use a treadmill instead?
