How To Leverage Momentum In Your Progress

[Siim Land]

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world" - Archimedes

We’ve all felt it...
 

Momentum is the culmination of certain events progressively developing towards something.

•  It’s a compounding effect that starts to bring more results the longer you use it.
•  It’s a chain reaction of events that keeps growing and growing until it reaches nuclear explosion.
•  It’s a domino-effect – one thing leading to another and another until you have something extraordinary.

You’re always in motion and being influenced by momentum.

Initial momentum gets set off by some form of action – something that puts you into motion.

• Reactive momentum is you getting triggered by external cues
• Proactive momentum is you initiating movement yourself

But there’s a way to leverage momentum even without this initial feedback loop.

We can deliberately make ourselves progressively keep on making the same actions by simply taking the first step and initiating motion.

 

HOW TO Leverage Momentum

 

• First, you have to come to terms with what your desired outcome is. If you don’t know where you’re heading, then you won’t be able to recognize what actions are giving you exactly the feedback, you’re searching for.
•  Secondly, you have to initiate motion yourself. Zig Ziglar has a quote: “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” It means showing up and taking action.
•  Thirdly, you have to stay in motion – keep taking action. Of course, you’d want to course-correct yourself to make sure you’re heading in the right direction. But the general idea is that the longer you stay in motion, the easier it gets.

This is the law of compounding effect: the more you do something the more momentum you’ll gain.

Einstein called it the 8th wonder of the world and considered it as a universal principle.

Momentum is powerful because it works both ways - towards the positive and negative. What you have to do as a proactive person is to take action and stay consistent.

Check out the video explaining this with Newton's Laws and Nietzsche's concept of Will

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