THE MOMENTUM OF SUCCESS

The momentum of success.

In any enterprise whatever it's nature, momentum is a key ingredient to success. The alternative is stagnation, which basically means the world is moving forward without you, which is as good as going backwards.

Momentum is just as relevant in business  as it is in our personal lives, a relationship that stalls is one that fails to elevate for whatever reason. One party or the other (unless it is a menage et trois) will be dragging their feet whether that is living together, marriage, kids.. the elevation  is well known. 

Everybody wants to know life has some meaning and is going somewhere and where better than locking yourself down to a 9-5, mortgage and 18 years of bringing up children. For an eighteen year old, possibly not top of the list of things to do, but as you get a little older priorities have the habit of changing and situations develop taking you in directions that may or may not be the ones which were your first thoughts on how to spend your days.

Your career is just the same. Maybe you wanted to be this or that when you first started out, and maybe you focused and became exactly what you wanted to be, but for many without a defined career path up the corporate or success ladder, it can ebbe and flow, carrying you off in all sorts of directions, and at some point wash you up on a desert island right in the middle of life, waiting for some sort of rescue. This is where momentum stops, and you have to do whatever you can to re-engage the boosters on your future, as unfortunately no one else is going to do it for you.

Business again has the same cycle of energy, you might start off with all the best intentions in the world, but chances are things are going to get heavy for you sooner or later. For business start ups who have no commercial experience it really is a mine field of being taken for a ride and emptying your pockets to float your little baby down the river of success. You invest your hard earned cash and time, with the dream of success. Some enterprises are founded on hope, let me rephrase that... All enterprises are founded on hope, just far too many are based all on hope, which in the business world is not a bankable commodity.

None the less, the enthusiasm of youth of a new freshly sprouting germ of an idea of a business can to many people require the love, protection and defence of a new born child, almost as if the parent would give up their own life for their little fledgling horror. This is an emotional business, and one the financial institutions of this world will be more than happy to finance on the basis of your hard crafted and sweat draped business  plan, underwritten by your house of course.

Taking emotion out of the business decision making process can be difficult, especially when the original idea becomes a bit wooly and diluted, this is where you have to take things back to the basics of why you started the whole enterprise in the first place, and refocus from there. Just the same as a career, just the same as a relationship. First off you will have to ask yourself if what you are doing is making you happy?... If not why & time for a little rethink. 

We all have internal values and belief structures that guide or decisions from our subconscious minds, and when you compromise these you will definitely find yourself out of sorts with the universe, floundering away in the sea of life with no idea of which way to go and no momentum to get there. Values and beliefs are not always structured for your best benefit, simply because they can be old behavioural patterns from way back when, placed in your mind by who knows who in your formative years and beyond. Our internal programming runs on automatic until we decide to switch it to manual, take responsibility for the decisions we make and start to build from there. There's nothing like a spring clean of the mind to get rid of what sometimes seems like a never ending record between the ears having a  self inflicted go. 

The ideal is to be congruent with all aspects of your existence....career, relationship, love, business, so you never loose momentum because it's naturally there, you don't have to force it, because you're in the river of success with it. This is called thinking in success based ways rather than undermining your own facility to get the full measure of your three score years and ten.