Momentum is an amazing force. When you are able to ride the wave, stay in the flow, and continually build upon the work you are already doing, that’s when your goals and dreams actually feel (and are) accomplishable.
It’s when we constantly stop and go, pick it up and put it down, when we rely on willpower alone to accomplish our goals, that our ideas can get harder and harder to actualize.
When we operate solely on willpower and trying to “muscle our way through it'', you're bound to get tired, slip up, or push it off for another time.
It takes active work to both stop and start movement. That fact goes back to Newton’s First Law of Motion (the Law of Inertia). In that “an object in motion will stay in motion, and an object in rest will stay in rest (unless otherwise acted upon)”.
Instead of operating on willpower alone, constructing your life and establishing habits around what you want to do is a much more effective way to create momentum, stay in the flow, and actually accomplish your goal.
As humans, we are known as “creatures of habit”. While we have free will and the ability to both end old habits and create new ones, we operate best on (and naturally fall to operating on) a schedule/routine.
A prime example of this is Seth Godin’s blog. In which he posts everyday. Recently, he sent out a post marking his 11th year in a row of posting every day (out of 20 years of having a blog). He talked about the process of making the switch to posting everyday, in which the idea turned from a commitment, to a practice, into a habit. And once it became a habit, a whole mindset switch happened. Instead of the question of “Should I post today?” it became “What will I post today?”.
When you are able to eliminate as many
Obviously, doing something everyday isn’t always possible, that’s where creating and constructing your life around your dreams and goals
Mindset switch from Forcing yourself to sit down and do it, to just getting do it .
From “Creative Quick Takes” circa 2019