Motivation & Momentum

Confessions of a Tuesday Morning:

Yesterday was Monday.

It was a super productive day.

Today has, so far, not been productive.

After finally falling out of bed, I listened to motivational speeches while I tried to get going. Finally, I made my bed, cleaned my room, did some stretching to help yesterday’s muscles that actually did something, drank some almond milk, and started to see things a little more clearly.

Thank goodness for motivation, and thank goodness that it gave me enough momentum to have opened up a document and written this blog post.

These two things go hand in hand, and they are pretty much all you need to be successful. Motivation tends to play hide-and-seek on a daily basis, so if you’re waiting to get all inspired before you do something, good luck. And momentum can become a heavy weight after a while if there’s nothing to temper its tedious monotony.

So it seems pretty obvious that momentum without motivation is hard, and motivation without momentum is just dreaming.

But here’s the great thing.

These two things, completely independent of anything else, work together.

Here’s the secret.

Start now.

At this moment, take your one square inch of motivation, and get started. Do the first thing, even if you don’t really feel like it. Use someone else’s motivation: this article, a song, a random burst of your own inspiration. You need only a little motivation to start. But once you start, it will be easier to keep going. This creates momentum, which creates motivation, which creates more momentum, which creates more motivation, and it never stops.

But it has to start.

I believe in you.

We can do this.

Start now.

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