The Power of Momentum
by Jeff Olson
In my business, I coach people how to build large
organizations one person at a time, by doing very simple, easy-to-do
action every day. I've found that it's far more
effective to take
one business-building action every day for a week, than to take seven,
or ten, or even two dozen, all at once and then take the rest of the
week off. People who do the first, week in and week out, build an
organization; people who do the second, don't—even if they actually
take a greater number of those business-building actions than the
other people.
Why not? No momentum. After six days off, they have to start all over
again, getting themselves geared up and inspired to get back into
action. It can take a good amount of energy and initiative to get
yourself started in a new activity—but it takes far, far less to
keep yourself doing it once you've started.
There's another reason once a day is better than
seven times, once a week: the daily rhythm of the thing starts
to change you. It becomes part of your routine ,
and as it does, it becomes part of who you are. That doesn't
happen with a once-in-a-while, all-out effort.
Imagine taking a twenty-minute brisk walk in the morning,
and then in the late afternoon working out on a home gym for another
twenty minutes. Now imagine for a week, you did that every day. How
would you feel at the end of the week?
Now instead, what if on that first day you had taken
a 140-minute walk (that's over two hours!) and that afternoon, spent
another 140 minutes on the home gym—and then did nothing for the
next six days?
The truth is, steady wins the race...
When you're in motion , it's
also far easier to make positive changes
in your direction. It's like steering a car: when the car's sitting
still, moving the wheel is hard work, but when it's moving, even at
only 10 or 20 mph, turning is a breeze. It's a breeze because you're
already in the flow...
It's easy to stay active.
It's also easy not to. And if you stop,
it won’t kill you today—but, that simple error in judgment, compounded
over time, will absolutely destroy the getting of any goal you're after.
Therefore, to make the power of momentum work
for you, instead of against you, stay in motion....
Create your success,
Jeff
P.S. If you want to create an easy-to-follow plan of action,
get this: 90 and this
BIG.
© 2007 by Jeff Olson. All Rights Reserved.
Jeff Olson, author of The Slight Edge,
has built multi-million-dollar sales and marketing organizations, hosted seminars
in every major city in the United States and produced over 900 television programs
with such personal development Les
Brown , Jim Rohn and
Brian Tracy. Over the past 20 years Jeff has helped
hundreds of thousands of individuals achieve better levels of financial freedom
and personal excellence.
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