How to Build momentum
Momentum: in business is built when you accumulate a series of successes, one following another in quick succession without stopping. Momentum can produce quick growth and enable you to meet all your goals within a very short duration.
Momentum takes daily work
1. Practice one thing every day
The first step in creating momentum in your life is to choose one activity or habit and practice it daily. Note that I didn’t say ten things or five things — just one thing. Any more than one item on your list and you’re already screwed before you’re started.
Why one thing? One thing that you practice daily allows your mind to focus. For every item on your list, a piece of your focus is taken away and that means the incredible power of momentum escapes you.
One Thing = Focus
Sustained Focus = Momentum
2. Set a 3% challenge
This step involves making a game of it and creating momentum through being 3% better (3% is not an exact number and is another way of saying small increases in results).
Once you have the daily practice, challenging yourself to be better at that daily practice in small increments is an entirely achievable goal that anyone can achieve.
If you wrote 500 words, write 600 words.
If you produced one video today, produce one and a half videos tomorrow.
If you made $100 this month from your website, make $120 next month.
Each time you challenge yourself and achieve small wins, you work your way towards the tipping point that momentum is. Momentum creeps up on you though and often once its effects are realized, you’ll have a delayed reaction to what is going on.
3. Commit to the long-term
The misconception about momentum is that it happens quickly. This step involves making one simple decision:
Will you focus on the short-term or the long-term?
By saying yes to the long-term, you head down the path of momentum. Focusing on the short-term will only make you obsessed with results that you haven’t yet earned and then giving up when you don’t see them.
As an example, I tell writers all the time: “Forget about making any money in the first year. If you’re dead serious, forget about making money from writing for five years.”
The shift to the long-term kills all the noise in your head that is desperately chasing instant gratification that comes from quick results.
4. Refine your process
The final step in creating momentum is to refine your process
Let me give you another practical example. As a writer, I have refined my process by cutting out a whole bunch of steps. I’ve cut out using editors, using too many photos in my articles, meeting minimum word counts, judging my work, and minimizing my time on social media that doesn’t add to the quality of the writing.
Locking in the daily habit creates your process and once you’ve repeated that process enough times, you’ll realize that there is a huge amount of wastage. Refining your process allows you to create momentum.
Summary
These are the four steps that anyone can use to create momentum. They are not hard to follow and can be applied to whatever your goal, dream or hobby is in life.
Once you see the incredible power that momentum creates in your life, you’ll feel like I feel right now writing these words. You’ll feel on fire!
Momentum crushes any creative resistance you have, eliminates the need to be motivated and helps you in invisible ways you can’t even see.
Choose one thing and practice it daily, set small challenges, commit to the long-term, and refine your process. I cannot wait to see you reach a level of potential that you previously hadn’t realized because the incredible power of momentum was lacking.
Use momentum to live a life you didn’t think was possible.
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