The Power Of Momentum

Most people do not truly understand the power of the momentum and they do not use it to its fullest potential. If we know how to use momentum to our advantage we will be able to use it to achieve much more in life. Momentum is so powerful that when we have gathered enough momentum, we will be able to easily overcome obstacles that we had not conquered in the past.

The Man Who Knows How To Use The Power Of Momentum

I was browsing the forums and I chanced by an article which I find it inspiring.

Here is an excerpt of it:

For me it’s about momentum. You’ve got to keep moving toward your goals. There are so many things that can get in the way, but they can be rolled over. I refuse to let work be the only reason to get up early or stay up late. When I wake up in the morning, I think of finishing that workout. To do that, I’ve got to get out of bed, get my shorts on, and get on the bike. You set those small goals to achieve the bigger goal. I’m not trying to impress anyone; I’m doing it for myself, so there are no external pressures. That helps. And I’m not special; I think everybody has the energy to do it. Momentum is energy. Once you get going, it’s like a rock rolling down a mountain: It’s not stopping. You don’t want to be in its way.

You can read the full article here.

When I read this article, I was thinking to myself, “Hey. This guy (Steve) knows how to tap into the power of momentum to help him achieve his goals.”

Steve knew that by consistently taking action and moving towards his goals, the momentum will gather and when he has the momentum by his side, he can get things done much more easily. The same applies to us. If we know how to tap into the power of the momentum, we can use it to help us achieve more results in life.

How Create Your Momentum

1. Be Unsatisfied With Something

Are you unsatisfied with something in your life? Momentum will start rolling when we are unsatisfied with something in our life. For example, you are overweight and the prom night is coming in a month time yet you couldn’t squeeze into your gown and you decided that you need to do something about it immediately. Being unsatisfied with something and wanting to do something about it immediately will help you create the momentum.

2. Set A Goal To Help You Overcome Your Problem

The problem was identified and you will need to set a goal to help you overcome your problem. Setting a goal will help you to have a finishing line where you can work hard towards it.

Using the previous example, now you are unsatisfied with you weight, you decided to set a goal of losing 10 lbs in a month time. Creating a 30 days challenge to shed off 10 lbs will be good idea.

3. Set up action plan

Once you have a goal to work towards to, you need to create an action plan that you must follow. By creating an action plan, you are also breaking up your goal into smaller pieces which is much more easier to achieve and it also helps to you to gather momentum. Most people made the mistake of setting a goal without an action plan. That is why most of them fail to reach their goals.

An action plan is a detailed plan of what you will need to do everyday in order to reach your goal. For example, in order to lose the 10 lbs in a month time, you will need to plan your 30 days by determining how many days you will exercise (which day in the week and how long you will need to exercise) and what type of food you will eat. The action plan should be as detailed as possible.

4. Follow Your Plan

An action plan is useless if you are not following it. It will be hard to follow your plan in the first place but as long as you stick to your plan and complete the tasks that you have to do for the day, your momentum will gather and completing your tasks will be getting easier and easier.

Remember to tick off your tasks in your action plan. It may serve as a motivation and a reminder to you that you are getting things done.

5. Your Finishing Line

The first few days will be the hardest for you to complete your tasks but if you are able to stick to your action plan and keep moving forward everyday, you will find that momentum will slowly gather and gradually it will be hard for you to stop doing your tasks because your momentum gathering fast. When your momentum is powerful, you may even find it hard to stop until you have reach your finishing line.

Parting Words

Steve knew the power of momentum and used it to achieve results in his life. You too understand the power of momentum now and you can use it to achieve the success you want in your life.

To your success,
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

**P.S** Are you using momentum to help you get more things done? I am looking forward to your comment in the comment section.

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Not Getting Things Done

There are times when we will wake up feeling energetic and feel that we can complete any amount of tasks on that day but there are also times when we will wake up feeling jaded and do feel like doing anything at all.

It will be great if I can wake up every morning and feel energetic and productive but I know that it is not really possible. There will definitely be times when I feel tired and don’t feel like doing anything.

When we are caught in an unproductive state, we tend to waste most of our time doing tasks such as watching the TV, surfing the net, sleeping or playing video games.  The problems arises when we did not limit the amount of time we are spending on time wasters and this cause us to indulge in those time wasters and waste our whole day away.

Common problems

When we are feeling unproductive, there are several reasons for it and some of them are…

• Fatigue
• Lack of Passion
• Just don’t feel like doing anything
• Distractions

How Get More Things Done Even When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything

1. Fatigue

If fatigue is the reason that is causing you to feel unproductive, I recommend that you do not fight against what your body is telling you and try to bulldoze through your work. It is better to rest your body by taking a short nap before resuming your work.

In order to prevent fatigue to hamper your productivity regularly, try to adopt a good sleeping habit and diet. Taking regular breaks will also help you to recharge your body so that you can prevent burn outs. Taking proper care of your body will enable it to function in it’s most optimal condition which will also help you to be more productive.

2. Lack of Passion

Whenever we are not passionate about our work, our productivity will definitely be affected. I got to admit that this had happened to me before. I had started a new blog that sell products on dealing with skin disorder but I am not passionate about the topic and hence I always try to put off writing articles for that blog.

When this happen to you in your respective field, you need to dig deep into yourself and try to reignite your passion again by asking yourself what is the reason that cause you to work in your field and why are you so passionate about it in the first place. More often than not, by revisiting the past memories on why you had started, you are able to gain back the passion.

However if you are not able to gain back the passion for what you are doing, this may be a time to find alternative work that you are truly interested in.

3.Do Not Feel Like Doing Anything

I believe most of us suffer from the “don’t-feel-like-doing-anything” syndrome every now and then. This syndrome cause us to indulge in time waster activities which does not require us to do anything (watching the TV). By doing nothing, we will be trapped in the unproductive state for longer hours which result in only wasting even more time.

To overcome the syndrome, start implementing the 15 minutes rule. Get off your couch and start doing something that you should be doing for just 15 minutes. The 15 minutes may be what you need to get your engine started. Whenever I use the 15 minutes rule, I find myself working  longer instead due to the momentum generated by just taking action for 15 minutes.

4. Distractions

Distractions are everywhere and they range from phone calls, emails, social media sites such as Facebook or even Twitter. When distractions regularly happen when you are working, it may be hard for you to be productive as you need to stop what you are doing in order to tend to the distractions.

Whenever you are working, eliminate distractions as much as possible. Disable your email alert, close your Twitter window or turn your phone on silent mode. By focusing 100% on your work and not getting away from your work regularly to tend to distractions, you can get more things done as a result.

Parting Words

If we truly want to achieve results in our life, we need to be able to take constant action which means being productive every day. There are definitely times when we feel like not doing anything but to achieve great results in your life, sometimes you need to be able to take action even when you don’t feel like doing it. So why not use the above tips and take some action now?

Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

**P.S** What are some ways you used to get yourself to take action even when you don’t feel like doing it? I look forward to your comments.

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Failure Is The First Step Towards Success

The above video had shown us some of the famous people who others had thought as failures turn out to be successful and there is one important thing that we can pick up from them.

Seeing Failure as a Result

Most of us hate to fail and we try our best to avoid it. One of the ways to avoid failure is to not take action because people think that without taking any action, there will hardly be any failure. People are fearful of failure because it gives off a very unpleasant feeling and makes us feel like we are at the bottom of the world. However the only way to achieve success in life is by going through multiple failures, learn from them, tweak your plan and take action again. Failure is part of the success equation.

Instead of thinking that failure is something negative, think of it as a result. A result that you can collect feedback that can help you to make some changes to your plan in order for you to achieve your desired results. Once we have the mindset that failure is just a result where we can collect feedback, we can obtain more information about why things do not work using the previous ways and what we can change in order to make it work.

The above diagram shows how failure (results) is included in the formula for achieving your desired results.

Parting Words

Instead of dreading failure and avoiding it, think of it as something that will bring you closer towards success. Keep on taking action and if there is some failure along the way, just learn from it and keep moving forward. As long as you know how to handle the failures in life, success will be just around the corner.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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The Modern World Of Multi Tasking

Multiple tabs were opened and you are surfing multiple websites at one go. Your phone rang and you are talking to your friend on the phone while chatting with multiple people on MSN. Does this sound familiar?

As the pace of the modern world increases, we are multi tasking with the belief that it will help us to be more productive but is it really true that multi tasking is the key to enhanced productivity?

My Productivity When Multi Tasking

In the past when I work on my blog, I would open up multiple tabs which consist of my blog, other multiple blogs that I frequently comment on, forums, Youtube, news site and my email web page.

I will then craft out my new post but in the mean time I tend to have the bad habit of clicking around the other tabs and checking my email in one instance then reading articles of other blogs and this keep on going over and over again.

This multi tasking habit had caused me a great decline in productivity because I am wasting time whenever I went on to do other things when I should be concentrating on my blog post and it is also hard to get myself back into the “writing mode” which result in wasted time again. I had also tried to write an article while listening to music and the result is disastrous because I found it hard to concentrate on 2 things at the same time.

Will Multi Tasking Make It Easier For You To Achieve Your Goals?

Did you set multiple goals for yourself with full of hope that you will achieve them but at the deadline you find that you did not achieve any of the goals that you set for yourself? This is a case which happens frequently when people set too much goals and chasing all of them at the same time.

Setting goals is important because it help us to see the end line but having too much goals is self sabotaging. I find that it is hard for me to reach multiple goals in the same time because my focus is pulled in many directions and I cannot direct all my energy into one area.

Multi Tasking And Health

Multi tasking takes a toll on our body by releasing a stress hormone cortisol which will cause health problems such as mental burnout, depression or heart conditions. Multi tasking also greatly increase our accident prone rate and examples such as this…

Or this…

may happen.

Parting Words

In many cases when I tried multi tasking, I found that my productivity dwindled and I couldn’t achieve satisfactory results but there are people who swear by multi tasking. So does multi tasking works for you?

Cheers

Vincent

Bad at multi tasking blogger

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Achieve Success In Everything You Want

What if I tell you that you can achieve success in everything you want? Do you think that it is possible? There is a very powerful strategy that anyone can use and apply it into his/her life to see fantastic results in their life and i am going to share it with you.

It is a 4 steps procedure and it is called the Ultimate Success Formula.

Step 1: Have a Goal

The first step to getting what you want is to know what is it that you want. This is a simple theory but there are still people who did not set goals to get what they want.

Most people do not know what they want specifically and they have nothing tangible that they can direct their energy into and this result in failure to achieve their goals. In order for us to achieve, we must set goals that are specific and we can visualize it with clarity. Once we have this clarity, we can then create the strategies that we need to get what we want.

Step 2: Have A Strategy

Once we have a specific goal in mind, we will need to brain storm for strategies to make our goals happen. For example, there was a time when I felt that I was gaining some pounds and I wanted to lose some weight. In order to make it happen, I created a 16 weeks exercise challenge which I must exercise for 6 days a week and also a 30 days challenge for myself which consist of me removing process starch from my diet and morning juice feasting.

As a result, I lost 13.2 lbs and gained a healthier body. This is only possible due to my goal setting and finding the right strategy to achieve it.

Step3: Action

Once you completed your brain storming for strategies, you must be able to take action. Only by taking action then you can move closer to your goal, but there are lots of people who are stuck at this stage. They can’t take action!

We can always brain storm and have the greatest ideas in the world but without taking action, nothing will happen. There may be procrastination, fear,need of perfection or analysis paralysis that stop us from taking action, but always remember that for one to be successful, you need to take the action to see results.

Forgo the need of perfection and accept the fact that we will be fearful of anything that is new for us or out of our comfort zone. Once you accept fear and imperfection, you will more likely to take action.

Step 4: Feedback

There are 2 possible scenarios that can happen after you took action. Either it will be success or failure. If success happen to you, give yourself a pat on the back and you had did a great job. If you had met failure instead, fret not and always remember that all of us had our fair share of failure and the important thing is how we deal with it.

There are 3 ways which people normally respond to failure. The first way is they give up immediately when they had failed. These are the people who will believe that they had tried and it does not work. The 2nd way is even though they had failed, they kept trying the same thing over and over again. Always remember that by repeating what had not work again will only give you the same result – failure.

The 3rd way is they gather feedback, change their strategy and take action again. This is the ideal way that we should follow whenever we had our share of failure. By changing our strategy and implementing it, we can always be assure of a different result. If the result is not what you desire, just keep tweaking your strategy and try again until you achieve your desired result. Always remember to take the failure as a feedback and do not let it discourage you from taking any more action.

As long as you don’t give up, you will ultimately reach your goals by using the Ultimate Success Formula.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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Analysis Paralysis

Analysis paralysis is where you can’t take any action due to over thinking about the details or over planning and is one of the best “action” killer we can possibly find. Planning definitely help when we are starting a new project but it should not be to the extent that it overwhelm us and cause us to fail to make a decision and take action.

I had met this scenario before where I had a great idea but failed to do anything about it because of analysis paralysis. I did too much brain storming and planning, only to find that I never took any action to make the idea work because of the problems I thought of during my brain storming session.

Due to too many failed ideas just because I did not take any action, I decided to take the plunge and launch my blog without much planning. I did not think about how my blog would look like or even give a thought about my lack of IT skills, I just jumped in and learn everything along the way. To my surprise, this way of action works well for me for this time.

In order to help others to combat analysis paralysis, I had generated a list of 10 tips that will be able to help you overcome the problem.

7 Tips To Help Overcome Analysis Paralysis

1.Plan

You still need a plan no matter what, but this time round, over planning is not allowed. Think of what are the things that you need to know before you start and get a grasp of it. Brain storm for what would be the most painful thing to change and get more information and make a wiser decision. Be sure to know what are the things that could possibly go wrong and try to prevent it.

2.Set a Deadline For Your Planning Session

Allocate a deadline for your planning session and be strict with yourself and only spend that certain amount of time for planning. When we have a specific time slot for planning, we will have a lesser tendency to over plan.

3.Just Start

When you had finished your planning session, stop asking yourself “what if” questions. Just start doing it and learn everything that you do not know along the way.

4.Forgo Perfection

I know there is a Mr/Mrs Perfection inside you and you want to get everything perfect on the get go but it is highly not possible that everything will turn out the way you want to be in the first place. Just forget about perfection and start taking action.

5.Momentum

Once you start your project, do not stop and think too much again. Just have a list of to-do items, regardless whether it is big or small and keep on completing the task.

6.Learn To Make Decision

This is an important skill that can help to overcome analysis paralysis. By knowing how to make a faster and wiser decision, we can take action faster and get more things done. Practice your decision making skills by setting a 5 seconds rule to make your daily decision. (Exp: What beverage am I going to have? Coke or lemon tea.)

7.Find an Action Taker

Find someone who is able to take action easily. Whenever you are stuck with analysis paralysis, find them and talk to them about your problem. Most likely you will get a positive reply and get the momentum you need to get going.

Parting Words

This tips had work fine for me in helping me to take action and also to achieve results. Analysis without action does not help you to have any kind of positive results. Now you have the tips to help you overcome analysis paralysis, why don’t you go start a something that will help to enhance your life today? Stop thinking and go do it now!

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

**P.S**What is the one factor that always hold you back from taking action? Is it the fear of failure or the need for perfection? Share with us and see you in the comment section.

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When we look at apple trees, we wonder why does the apples contain so many seeds? Why not just one seed per apple will do? Nature have a lesson for us here. The apples contain so many seeds because not all the seeds will grow!

So what does the law of the seeds show us? It show us that if we want something, we are going to try more then once to get it. We will need to try 5 pair of shoes to get the right fit. We will need to send 20 resumes for one job interview. We will need to meet hundreds of people to find our best friend. We will need to try thousands of business ideas to get one that work best. One of my previous job in sales taught me, each No brings you closer to a Yes. I believe it and work hard on it so even a rejection can’t bring me down as I know each rejection I received brings me closer to a deal!

So how to be successful? We will need to try more then once to be successful in life, be it in becoming slim, becoming rich or having a soul mate. Successful people fail often to get what they want. It is because they are trying more then others and thus planting more seeds.

Effort first, results later.

Jack says if I get an A for maths then I will start loving maths. Zack says he will start saving money after he is rich. It doesn’t work this way. The principle is always effort first then results. It is not the other way round.

So what else can we learn from the Law Of The Seed? We need to know we can only reap the harvest after the work. Without planting the seed, we cannot expect any harvest. After planting, we will need to water it which is the effort being applied and then wait (patience) for it to grow.

Patience is such an important virtue yet sometimes we forgot about it. In this world of fast food and instant noodles, we want instant gratification and instant results. People want to be rich and wealthy overnight, which is hardly going to happen unless you hit the jackpot or strike the lottery. Look how many people are turn off by the idea of effort and thus denying themselves the results they desired.

Lets refer to the bamboo. It takes 3 years to get it growing. The first 3 years are just getting itself ready and growing the roots to prepare for a growth spurt. Without patience, you will stop the effort of watering on the bamboo in the first and second year and in turn fail to see it grow into such a magnificent sight.

Once we understand the Law Of The Seed we will know how to handle the feedback in life and don’t feel like victims every time. So understand the Law of Nature and work with it.

Cheers!
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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