How to Renew Your Momentum
Why do we stop and start in reaching our goals? So many people achieve their momentum and a crisis in life stops our momentum. It is almost impossible to get started again and re-gain our momentum.
Gaining momentum in our lives runs into difficulty when we run hot and then run cold. Let me explain it this way. I was reading an illustration on “not stopping” in our efforts in reaching our goals and it involved water.
If you want to boil water you will do three things: 1) put the water in a kettle; 2) put the kettle on a stove; 3) and then turn the heat on. If the heat is turned off, even for an instant, the water will not boil, even though the heat is turned on again later. If one continues to turn the heat on and off the fact remains that the water will never boil.
To relate this to real life when we want to achieve a goal we 1) create our business plan; 2) plan our action steps; and 3) and then implement. All of a sudden we experience a set-back or failure. It is not advisable to go back and re-do what we have created; it is time to “adjust” and create an alternative plan or action step or the method of implementation. Unfortunately many people just give up and say something like “well, that didn’t work” and throw the project out the window.
No one had a greater commitment and staying motivated to a walking exercise program than I. My father died and my world shut down. My motivation and commitment disappeared. My energy evaporated. After a few months a friend told me that my past walking program is “out of the window” so I had to create new ways of walking so that I would look forward to a new adventure in my life. Upon research, I discovered there are 22 different walking styles to choose. My kittle of boiling water had been turned off so I had to get a fresh kittle of water and heat it up; which is what I did. With making a few adjustment and adding new ways of walking, my commitment, motivation and enjoyment came back.
In the same way, if there are gaps in all of our lives that stop the momentum it is important to create a new plan of action and get started with renewed commitment and motivation and maintain your concentration.
