success is about building momentum

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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
— Darren Hardy

Success is all about momentum. As Darren Hardy mentioned in his book The Compound Effect, momentum (or as he likes to call it the “Big Mo”) is one of the most powerful strategies for success. He advises us to build effective routines and rhythms into our daily disciplines and stay consistent over a long enough period of time. If we want to get the most out of our lives, it’s important that we incorporate positive behaviors and habits on a daily basis, whether it be reading, meditating, or eating an apple a day. Personal development is to be done consistently in this ever-changing world. As you gather momentum, things become easy and effortless. It takes a great effort to get a merry-go-round started, but once it gets going, maintaining its speed is easy.

To get started initially in building a discipline we have to put in work daily. Usually, I suggest doing a particular behavior or activity for at least 90 days. Once we have internalized the habit, all we have to do is maintain the habit by being consistent and doing it regularly, if not daily. For instance, if you would like to incorporate going to the gym in your routine, initially I would suggest doing it daily for a short time, like 10-20 minutes. After 90 days, once you have acclimated to the gym environment, you can do three 45-minute workout sessions during the week, instead of doing it daily.

The best way to develop a new habit is to anchor it to a particular time of the day, for instance, learning a new language for 10 minutes during your afternoon coffee or tea break every day. An advantage of this is that we don’t have to worry about renewing our commitment to doing that habit daily and have 100% certainty that we will do it. In this way, we eliminate the decision-making process. I read somewhere that we make 35,000 decisions every single day. And by the end of the day, our brain is completely exhausted, because of a phenomenon called decision fatigue. When we start a new habit, decision-making and our attempts to exercise willpower consume a lot of our energy. So, it’s best to take it easy and let time be a trigger for us to stick to a habit.

Rome was not built in a day, and neither are good habits! Be a marathoner, not a sprinter, and start small initially. Pick up the pace as you go. The biggest nemesis to starting and building a good habit is being overwhelmed. With momentum, doing good things for ourselves, our bodies, our finances, and our relationships becomes the path of least resistance. Initially building momentum is simple but not easy. But once we have the momentum going by our side, amazing things come to our lives effortlessly by the Law of Attraction. All we have to do is gently nudge ourselves with the natural flow of the Source energy.