The momentum that comes with consistency in anything positive is how life changes are made. Real honest to God life changes. MOMENTUM is where something in my life goes from a fad to something permanent.
How many times have we all started a diet and quit. Started a diet and quit. Started a new training regimen and quit. Monday is the notorious beginning to anything big. And Tuesday is the day for failures. Why does this happen? It is because there wasn't enough MOMENTUM to push them forward.
Momentum is the key. Build up momentum at all cost. And protect momentum at all cost. Look at the quote I have under my blog title....
"I am like a snowball rolling down hill. I am building steam and getting bigger and faster. If I can gain enough mass of snow and enough speed, then my momentum will turn into an avalanche. Nothing can stop me then."
Nothing can stop me with enough momentum. This is a driving force. This says that based on what I do on a daily basis, based on the pattern of thoughts, based on the pattern of habits, I can look into the future and know what it looks like. This is momentum.
I can also have negative momentum. I really need to start going to bed early. This would benefit me in a number of major ways:
1. I would recover faster for the next day
2. Enough sleep is an automatic testosterone booster
3. I wouldn't binge eat late at night, or be tempted to do so, because I'm asleep when those cravings come.
But right now I have the habit of staying up late. As soon as the kids get put down, my wife usually goes to our room and chills. Then I usually grab my favorite pillow and crash my butt on the couch, watch Family Guy, and play online WSOP. I make a few $100k of fake money and I fall asleep.
Now I know the benefits of what changing my night time routine would bring me. Unfortunately, the habit I just explained has created enough negative momentum in my life, that it is hard to break. But it needs to be broken.
So what am I doing about it? I have set a futuristic date to prepare for the MOMENTUM CHANGE. Haha coincidently it's this Monday!!!!
I think the difference of being successful for this paradigm shift of my night time routine and not being successful has to do with PREPARATION. And this is where meditation, prayer, and visualization come into play.
If I do nothing with the next few days leading up to this Monday, not even think about it, give it no real thought, then sure I will be a failure at this goal come Tuesday. So I have an obligation to myself that by taking this goal seriously, and emotionally and mentally prepare, then I may have enough to stop the avalanche that is this negative habit that is ultimately hindering and interfering with my 2017 goals.
Getting to the question that came with this title..........Should you take something on when you're not 100% ready for it? The answer is NO. Not if you haven't prepared for it. Not if you haven't visualized yourself succeeding. And spent enough time meditating and thinking about you being successful in order to have a strong enough start.
Think back to a time when you set out on a goal and finished. I guarantee the times you were successful, you were excited about beginning. You were talking about it with anyone who would listen. You knew even a week before starting that this time WOULD BE DIFFERENT. You just knew. And so when the time came to begin....when that particular Monday rolled around, Tuesday came and went and you pushed on to the end. WHY? Because you did the correct visualization beforehand, causing you to be confident and prepared. Negative thoughts were not present.
PLEASE GET THIS: the more successful you are, the more momentum you have to take on any changes at any time, knowing full well that you will achieve what you started.
Being successful is momentum.
When a football team has a win streak that goes back 3 straight seasons, don't you think the opposing team is freaking intimidated to play them?! And what do you think the mentality is for that football team when they enter the field? How confident do you think the coaching staff is in calling plays? How about when they make a gutsy play, or the kicker lines up for a 46 yard game winning attempt? They know they will win due to MOMENTUM.
The same can be for a losing streak. It's hard to win with a losing streak. And the analysts after usually point that their own minds got in the way.
Taking something on when a person has been losing when they aren't ready for it, when they haven't done the correct preparation in their minds and in their emotions will only add to the negative pattern.
And the shift of someone turning themselves from a loser into a winner, there is that time frame where they are still vulnerable. They have been winning. They have been gaining success. They have been walking out their new self image, attacking everything that comes their way with a winning attitude, knowing nothing will stop them. There may have been a set back or two, but they have bounced back. MOMENTUM is growing. That snowball has turned into a ball that is now 4 ft tall. It's gaining speed. It's gaining mass. It needs to remain that way. And taking something on without the preparation needed, especially if it is a lofty goal in the midst of the greater goals at hand, could be damaging. Momentum is precious and must be protected.
Momentum must be protected. Especially when it is driving toward something valuable. Something meaningful. Something defining.
Now should we avoid taking on bigger goals? Should we risk it? Or should we feel like we aren't capable? We should absolutely risk it. It needs to be done. Because when that larger thing that once intimidated you is accomplished and you stand triumphant over it, that victory just transformed your 4 ft snowball into a cliffhanger about to cause some serious destruction to the landscape of that mountain!
But take it seriously. Know that the changes happening in your mind and heart are so valuable, they are so precious, and they must be protected. Do the prep. Pray and believe in faith. Speak faith. Sit down and visualize yourself. Faith image yourself. Practice. Pretend. Gain the experience, even if it is just between you and Jesus. Then when that particular Monday rolls around, hit it with all you've got!
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| Yesterday's training. CONFIDENCE: on #3 I pushed so hard I literally had chills after. I can do this with all my metcons. I have what it takes to hurt that bad. To go to that dark place and keep moving. |
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