Get Momentum

Jason W. Womack & Jodi Womack

What’s in the book for you?

Do you have any core ambitions in your life but feel that you aren’t actually moving forward to it?

Get Momentum (2016) will guide you to take the necessary strategies to work with a sustainable momentum towards your personal and professional goals. 

Get yourself motivated.

Motivation is what makes you move towards your goals. Even though it’s advisable not to care much about others’ opinions, seeking a certain level of reputation will motivate you. It will help you discover the kind of person you want to be and work for it.

While on the way towards your goals, stop for a moment to observe your progress. Reflecting and celebrating your progress will get you motivated to move forward.  So rejoice at reaching each step that makes you closer to your goals.

Have a role model or mentor.

To maintain your momentum, you need to have a role model or mentor to inspire you through their work when you feel like giving up. Connect with the person whom you think is right for you through conferences, meet-ups, or social events and ask whether they are ready to mentor you.  Before approaching them, check whether you are dedicated enough to ask advice on specific topics instead of asking for general advice and wasting both of your valuable time.  

Organize your long term goals

Schedule your long-term goals into sub-goals or milestones that can be achieved within a fixed interval.  For example, you can give each of your milestones a 30-day time limit. You can even develop a 90-day work cycle within which you should surpass three milestones.

You can follow either the 30/30 0r 90/90 rule if you feel like there aren’t enough hours within a day to finish your work. For the 30/30 day rule, work for 30 minutes a day for 30 days before you officially start working on your milestones so that you will already put in 15 hours of work towards your milestone.

If you are following the 90/90 rule, preserve 90 minutes on the first working day of each month to reflect on all the necessary aspects of your work. Following any of these rules will help to reduce your stress while you actually work towards reaching the milestones.

Monitor your progress

Even if you diligently plan and follow your strategies, there is always a possibility of an odd slip-up. You might be realizing this just a week before your deadline. To avoid this, monitor your progress towards your milestones regularly by identifying the indicators that highlight your progress in each stage. Monitoring these highlights will help you sense your loss in momentum before it leads to a problem.  You can use a whiteboard, sticky notes, or posters to mark your progress.

Retract from excessive monitoring. The natural variations that may appear when you keep a record of even the minute details will get you depressed and distracted.

Modify your strategies.

The strategies you have established towards your goal might not always give you the desired result. Rather than just giving up the whole process, modify your strategies by finding out new ways to your goals. You shouldn’t change the whole plan or your goals but change those strategies that don’t seem to be working. For example, if you are planning to do exercise for one hour daily for a month and you don’t find yourself meeting it, modify it to half-hour exercise daily for 2 months. So, rather than forcing yourself to work past your limit, you can move towards your goal without exhausting your body and losing your momentum.

Change one strategy at a time. If you don’t find any progress after a while, look for another modification. Have an efficient tracking system of your progress so that you will be able to easily spot the aspects of your action plan that need a change. Never misunderstand your modifications as a sign of your failure, it’s just a strategy to maintain your momentum. 

Summary

To have a sustainable momentum in your progress, you need to get yourself motivated, seek inspiration, organize your goals, and regularly monitor and modify your progress. Keeping up a sustainable momentum will help you achieve your goals without any delay.

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