It can carry you like a strong current carries a fallen leaf. It can
ground you like an early morning walk through the woods. It can move you
like wind moves a cloud across the summer sky. It can ignite your
spirit and make you feel like you can do anything.
It is momentum – that invisible, universal force that can saturate
your every choice, your every step, your every breath, your every moment
of resolve with vibrant, joyful energy. Momentum can surge you forward
and it can pull you under. It goes with your flow, follows your lead and
enhances your trajectory.
It can be harnessed, gathered and used as an incredibly transformational tool.
How do I know this to be true? I’ve been actively gathering momentum
for almost six years now, ever since I quit smoking. That one simple yet
meaningful change shifted my direction just enough to spark momentum. I
triggered it without even knowing it. All I knew at the time was that
if I could quit smoking after twenty years of trying, I could do
anything. That’s what momentum feels like. It seeps into your pores and
tingles the back of your neck.
It feels like possibility.
That one success of quitting smoking led to another success … and
then another. I took up running and yoga after years of sedentary
living. I became a mindful eater and adopted a vegetarian diet after a
lifetime as a meat-eater. I felt like I was waking up. I became aware
for the first time in my life that I could make different choices from
the ones I’d been taught – from the ones that had become habits. I let
go long held beliefs, pounds and lethargy.
Momentum was helping to shape a new me, inside and out.
I found inner strength after years of feeling like someone who
repeatedly started a new exercise regime or eating regime only to quit a
few weeks in. I now knew I was capable of profound and lasting change.
I gave up the haze of red wine soaked evenings and instead wrote the
first draft of a novel I’d been talking about for a decade. Momentum was
gathering all around me. Even the word, momentum, kept popping up
everywhere like red cars do after you buy a red car. I was seeing the
word in books, hearing it in random conversations, feeling it as I ran
and waking up with it on the tip of my tongue.
Six months ago, while reading one of my favourite blogs, Leo’s blog, this very blog, I linked to another called Write to Done which carried me to yet another called The A-List Blogging Club.
That’s when I decided to write a blog about momentum as a means to
express it, sustain it, understand it, embrace it, share it, inspire it
in others and live it completely.
Momentum has propelled me and supported me.
It has been like a coach, mentor and teammate, and it has been my
constant companion for the past six years of incredible life change and
over the past six months of my new venture. It has ushered into my life
the unexpected gifts of friendship, community, passion and life purpose.
I have harnessed momentum and I never want to let it go.
How can you begin to gather momentum in your own life and make it
work for you? How can you harness it’s power to create lasting and
joyful life change? Simply let it.
Let momentum carry you
Dip into the warm waters of momentum by trying, experimenting, taking
a first step, forgiving yourself for slip-ups and then trying again.
Plunge into whatever you’ve been putting off for “some day” and make
today the day you begin. Imagine how incredible it will feel to let the
current of momentum carry you from this one success towards another.
Each can be a wave you ride to the next.
Let momentum ground you
Feel the earth beneath your feet as you step in a direction that
makes sense to you – just you. Ground yourself in the feeling that comes
from reflecting upon what you believe in, doing what feels right to you
and living by your own convictions, counsel and sense of right and
wrong. Get solid about who you are and then feel the power and ease with
which your choices come to you.
Let momentum move you
Take that first step in a direction of your own choosing, then with
each bold statement, each strong stride, each clear-thinking choice let
momentum joyously lift you higher and farther. Exceed your own
expectations and strengthen your resolve to be who you were meant to be
and nothing less. Don’t strive and stress – instead simplify and find
success on your terms.
Let momentum ignite you
Once you feel it growing, let momentum fan the fire inside you – a
fire that may have been burnt out or smoldering under the surface for a
long time. Let yourself feel love and passion towards yourself, your
life and everything you do then begin to recover, uncover or discover
your true potential. If often leaps out of the flames.
Momentum thrives on you.
It is the water, the earth, the wind and the fire of your being. It
embodies the elements of a life lived fully and on your own terms. It
can fill your heart, sooth your soul, propel your body forward and, if
you let it, momentum just might make you feel like you can do anything –
and then likely, you can and will.
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