Turning tricks

With a push and a shove and a mighty heave, you get things moving. With consistent effort and plenty of attention, they’ll start to move at a lick and then keep on going all on their own. Momentum is a marvellous thing. It takes what you’ve done so far and keeps turning tricks out the back.

It’s a free ride … for a while.

Shift your attention just a little too long, wander off in the belief that your work here is done, forget to keep a watching brief … and momentum wears down. Now there’s a trickle. Now things settle into stasis. No creative thought. No progress. Inertia takes over and thought settles in goo.

All that initiation effort wasted on a short leap. And digging it back out of that mud? Even more endeavour than the first time.

To keep momentum takes attention and nudges.

Skippy strategy: It’s about momentum.

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