Tag: momentum

You never know

Posted on by philipdodson

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When you first talk with someone, you never know at that point where that conversation may lead.

Yet all too often, we are pre-programmed to judge people and their potential worth to us.

We look at someone’s business card and title, then decide whether or not to talk with them. We ‘target’ people based on all sorts of judgements, and sure experience will give us a view on these things.

However, if we approach meetings and conversations with an open mind and a willingness to go with the flow, then it is amazing just what might come up. This is part of the magic of life, that too many are willing to forgo for a quick fix.

One of the biggest obstacles to this happening is the culture of instant gratification, where no one is prepared to wait for results to happen. Yet the most successful people, have a long-term thinking and know that small things, done regularly and well, build momentum and results come. They realise that a curious and open mind is more likely to unlock the best things in life.

Not only do things happen, but for the patient and committed, bigger results come, than for those who took the short cut, to instant and short-lived outcomes.

It takes hard work and time to create anything of substance and meaning, don’t be tempted by low hanging fruit.

Keep the momentum going

Posted on by philipdodson

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Once you have overcome that initial inertia, the fear of starting something, the key thing is to keep going.

Most of the effort is at the front end, getting the thing ‘off the ground’. The keeping it up there is just a question of discipline and commitment.

Wow, that was easy to type, if only it was that easy, but remind yourself on the days that you feel the lull, feel like arghhh!!! today I just can’t do it, that you have built all that momentum, you have taken all those steps closer to your goal. Giving up would lead to the brakes going on and the need to start again.

Just look at the journey up to today, all those small steps you have done and repeated day after day, think about where you have come from when you started.

Anybody who has faced starting anything worthwhile, something that will lead to making a difference, knows the monumental effort required to overpower our inner ‘chimps’, the limbic brain that says ‘nah do that latter, have another coffee, you’ve done enough today, tomorrow, tomorrow…’.

Think about the fears we’ve overcome, think about the hard work we put in at the beginning, the tweaking, the testing of ideas until we started to make some breakthroughs.

That doesn’t mean working when you’re just not in the right mood, sure take a break, go for a walk, watch some Netflix or whatever, but keep the faith in your work, keep the momentum going and do the work needed to keep going.

If you set yourself daily small manageable steps, this is so much easier to do. After all success is a series of small steps done well on a daily basis.

Just keep going.