Thursday 18 June 2009

Thursday’s Thought – Start! Begin! Now!

This week’s Tuesday’s Tip didn’t quite make it and since Wednesday’s Wonderings or Wednesday’s Womblings or similar all sound a bit ropy I came up with Thursday’s Thought as a nice alternative.

And it’s all about beginnings. Have you noticed that the most difficult thing about pretty much anything is getting it started? And once you have started it is much easier to keep it going? It’s that first bit of movement that takes the greatest amount of energy. If you have ever tried to push a car (or pull a truck if you’re into that sort of thing) you will have noticed that once you’ve got that thing to move, it’s not as hard to keep it moving. Some physical principles are at play here (google Newton’s First Law of Motion for more information).

And this not only applies to physics but to getting things done as well. Make a start. Find out what the first thing is you need to do to start your project, to get this show on the road and do it. Now! And then simply move along with it while it’s own momentum keeps it going.

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