How Can You Gather Momentum Today?

April 23, 2009 by Sandrine
Filed under Success Tracks

I spoke with a friend who was always busy and yet still felt that she was not making any progress. She was getting to the point where she felt paralyzed by the amount of tasks she had on her plate. She needed a better way to manage her activity and begin feeling successful again.

As I spoke with her to find out more about how she got to that point, I realized that she was always embarking on new tasks or projects, not including the ones that just fell on her. We all have families and friends and more often than not we find ourselves in charge of things we would rather have passed on.

How can you gather momentum today? Taking on new projects was not the issue. The problem was that she was getting overwhelmed by the amount of work she had and was failing to manage her activities properly.

When the task at hand seems daunting, we have this feeling that we will never be able to get it done and that paralyzes us into inactivity. If we remain in that state, we will not be able to achieve any kind of success, because success abhors chaos. When you in that chaotic place, how can you gather the necessary momentum that will propel you to the achievement you are seeking?

How Can You Gather Momentum Today?

One way to do that is by starting right now to complete the incomplete tasks you have on your plate before attacking any new project. You see, most of the time when you feel overwhelm by the amount of work you, it is because you have a lot of things that you started but never finished.

Stop right now, take on an incomplete project and do not leave it until it is completed or outside of your control. Then tackle the next incomplete and do the same. Before you realize it, your plate will be clearer and you will have a lot less to do.

What’s best is that by doing that, you will put yourself into momentum. Every time you complete a project and take it off your plate, you achieve a victory. Soon, those small victories will build into a greater one and you will have developed a habit indispensable for success; the habit of getting things done.

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