It is easier to stay healthy than it is to get healthy. Going from an unhealthy state to a healthy one requires immense effort, dedication, and discipline. Staying healthy requires the same, but with one major difference. The transition from an unhealthy state to a healthy one also requires us to overcome inertia in a … Continue reading Overcoming Inertia
We may be frustrated at the circumstances we find ourselves in, but anger does not lead to solutions. Frustration is a natural response to hindered progress, growth, and forward momentum. When we find ourselves slowed down, stopped, or even set back, it is quite easy to feel frustrated. The more effort, planning, and preparation we … Continue reading Solutions From Frustration
New ideas are often rejected, not just out of fear, but out of laziness. The law of inertia applies not only to objects. It applies to us as well. When we are at rest, we tend to want to stay at rest. When we are in motion, we tend to want to stay in motion. … Continue reading Active Curiosity
As important as momentum is to progress, momentum in the wrong direction or in too many directions at once is counterproductive. We need to break free from the things that are holding us back, whether these are fear, procrastination, distraction, or some other form of internal or external resistance, and get moving in the direction … Continue reading Increment Progress Over Misguided Momentum (Kaizen)
For those of us driven by creativity, by innovation, and progress, the idea of being still can feel threatening, sometimes even life-threatening. Some of us need to stay in motion in order to feel alive. We need to be doing something, to be working on something, or to be making something in order to feel … Continue reading Stillness Guides Progress
