Success Momentum

A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Behind this fundamental law of physics lies a very important principle of success that can be simply summarized as this: Success leads to success. Have you ever noticed how when something starts going right in one aspect of you life it tends to have a positive impact on other aspects of your life? If you are able to make a positive change even in just one small aspect of your life this may trigger a whole new level of energy and renewed motivation in many other aspects of your life, leading to more accomplishment and success. We call this phenomenon success momentum.

Making profound changes in life can be overwhelming. Sometimes it seems like there are so many goals to accomplish and so much improvement that needs to be made that we just get paralyzed and end up putting off or giving up on all of our life dreams. So how do you get back in gear? How do you get beyond the paralysis that robs you from reaching your full potential? The answer lies in the principle of success momentum.

The key to properly leveraging success momentum is to find one aspect of you life, or one particular goal that is pretty important to you, and yet is not very difficult to accomplish. If all of your important goals are too hard to accomplish you may want to consider choosing one and breaking it down into smaller milestones that are more easily accomplished. But once you choose a goal or a particular area of improvement it is very important that you give it all you have in order to achieve success. You have to get psyched and motivated to put all your energies and focus in getting this one small thing accomplished.

For example, let’s say you feel that you need to lose a significant amount of weight. But the thought of dieting and exercising is too overwhelming for you to even get started. However, what happens if you have one piece of clothing that you like that is currently feeling too tight to be worn comfortably and you decide to set a goal to lose just enough weight to fit comfortably into this piece of clothing? Maybe you need to lose 2-4 pounds to accomplish this goal (if it takes much more than that then you need to choose another goal), and you commit to make a significant effort over a period of 2-3 weeks to accomplish this. So, during this time period you watch what you eat and you exercise daily for a minimum of 30 minutes, until you fit into this piece of clothing comfortably again.

If you can do just that, and lose just enough weight to fit into one of your favorite clothes you can set off the success momentum. Your accomplishment will help you change your entire attitude about losing weight and you will be much better prepared psychologically to go to the next level. Once you get the momentum going with the weigh lose you can set additional small goals that will get you ever closer to your overall goal of losing significant weight.

Once you start losing weight what you may find is that other areas of your life may start improving also. Losing weight will give you more confidence and energy which in turn will likely help you improve your work performance and potentially some other areas of your life.

Another example is eliminating clutter and becoming better organized. Perhaps your current situation is such that you do not have the energy or motivation to get started on a big organization project. But if you can find one small area to get uncluttered, perhaps one room, the desktop or even just one drawer, this may be enough to get the success momentum going. Once you get one small area uncluttered, you will get excited about working on the next area and eventually you may eliminate clutter all around you. This may be enough to get your head cleared, to gain efficiency in your work, and to even improve your creativity.

Success momentum is about getting started. Success momentum is about getting yourself in a state of flow where one small win leads to another small win, eventually leading to a big win. Try the principle of success momentum today and see for yourself what impact it has in your search for success.