Meet your most powerful ally for productivity: momentum
How to get the ball rolling and keep friction at bay
“Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results.
Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort” — Charles J. Givens
Momentum: that unstoppable feeling when motion just takes care of itself.
Having momentum feels good. Those days when you feel propelled by an invisible force and everything falls into place can seem like a coincidence when that happens.
But it’s not. Momentum is the sum of a series of events in the days, weeks and months preceding it. In other words: you were the one that created it.
Momentum is a powerful ally because once we’ve got it, things tend to roll our way. But friction — in all its shapes and forms — can hinder our process.
The trick is knowing how to produce momentum, and, once it has been produced, keep friction at bay.
Let’s look at two types of friction:
