“Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.”

-Tom Watson

STOP thinking about moving forward and start MOVING FORWARD! Momentum is an amazing thing to behold.  You can see it amplified on the football field, (gridiron, to my international friends).  The more a struggling team thinks about what’s going wrong, and the fact that they aren’t gaining any traction, the worse they perform…unless, and until, one player does something successful, an interception, a fumble recovery, a blocked kick, a huge kick return.  Something, anything, to change the team from THINKING about what’s going wrong, to MOVING FORWARD.

Analysis paralysis, is a momentum killer.  Momentum, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder.  If you believe, and therefore act, like you have Big Mo on your side, you do.  If you believe, and therefore act, like Big Mo is against you, she is against you.  It’s really as simple as that.  Big Mo, is a psychological phenomenon.  That is a wonderful fact to place in your success tool box.  You create and control your own momentum.

My mentor’s mentor, Bill Gove, used to say, “It’s easier to act your way into good thinking, then it is to think your way into good action.”  Read that again, and again.  Herein lies the key to creating and controlling Big Mo in your life.  Begin to DO, and then DO that some more, and then just keep DOING that.

If you don’t know what to do, figure out where you want to GO, then find someone else on that same path, and walk that path.  Copy their actions, do what they do.  You will not be good at doing it at first, but neither were they.  You, like those before you, will only get good as you DO the DOING of the thing that needs to be DONE.

I know we already know this stuff, but are we DOING it? “Knowing” and “Doing” aren’t the same thing.  If you already know it, then ask yourself, “Why aren’t I further ahead?”

If you are waiting for Big Mo, you should be aware that Big Mo is waiting on you.

Boo Yah!!