Momentum is either your greatest ally or your greatest foe.
Learn how to use momentum in your favor and the tasks of your day will topple over seamlessly, one to the next, like a perfectly aligned series of dominoes.
One push and momentum will take care of the rest.
Ignore momentum and the tasks of your day will topple and stop erratically, requiring you to keep re-pushing the next series of dominoes again and again and again.
For me, getting out of bed in the morning is the initial push of my dominoes which hits:
- Shower—which hits,
- Workout—which hits,
- Breakfast—which hits,
- Reading—which hits,
- Driving to work.
The dominoes are beautifully ordered and adequately spaced. All I have to do is get out of bed at the right time and the rest feels automatic.
There’s no guessing. No setting up dominoes as I go. No reshuffling the dominoes after I’ve already tipped the first one… It’s all premeditated, sequential, and intentional.
And once I arrive to work, of course, the next chain of dominoes gets pushed—and so forth, as the day goes on.
Where most people run into momentum issues, is when they don’t take the time to properly set up their dominoes (tasks) ahead of time and/or don’t have them properly spaced out (time management).
If you look at your day in this way, I suspect you’ll find where the missing “dominoes” and irregular spacings lie. Adjust accordingly.
Having momentum as a foe, to be frank, is a stupid waste of time, energy, and effort.
Starting from stopped is always harder than keeping the momentum going.
Momentum, meet reader. Reader, meet momentum.
Now, be friends.