“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”
Barbara Hall
You can’t get to where you are supposed to be unless you embark. Screw waiting for the perfect time or perfect opportunity. Just start. If it isn’t the right track, adjust quickly but don’t sit around waiting. You aren’t even on a path if you aren’t moving…
“Momentum solves 80% of your problems.”
John C. Maxwell
The energy you feel when you are riding a huge wave of momentum is contagious and powerful. The key to maintaining momentum is to put as much effort into the next step or action as you did in all the steps that built the current wave. If you relax and take your foot off the gas, the momentum will go away. Never ever slow down because with intense focus and action you build momentum, and with momentum you win. Momentum is magical…
“The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.”
Tony Robbins
Goals that are too far over the horizon are hard to use to motivate yourself to do the things that need to be done now. Taking that goal and breaking it into the building blocks that you can focus your energy on is what really matters.
The Nike slogan says it best. “Just do it.” If you don’t you can’t build the momentum you need and you have no one to blame but yourself.