Building Momentum in Your Life
“Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.”
Ben Nicholas
I was writing a report today when I stumbled upon this quote by the Australian actor. My first thought was WOW…that’s the exact problem many people experience when trying to succeed online.
Everyone loves to talk about the big product launch that generates a large amount of cash, but what about the day-to-day routine that builds up to that launch?
They love the “overnight success story,” but not the 3 years of foundation put in place first.
Successful people are disciplined. They have a regular routine. If you’re a writer, those flashes of inspiration are great. They remind you of the runner’s high where everything just flows. But the majority of writing isn’t like that.
Often it’s sitting down to write even when there aren’t any great lines going over and over in your head. Sometimes you just slug it out. You sit down and write. Maybe nothing is coming out. You just writing blah, blah, blah until ideas begin to form in your head.
Perhaps you end up deleting the whole first page of what you wrote ONCE you’re in the editing phase. That’s OK.
What if you’re not willing to write blah, blah, blah? Then maybe you sit there staring a blank page. DON’T DO THAT. Write anything. Do something. Get our fingers moving on the keyword to get the momentum started. Ideas will come as you get in motion. Just because you write it doesn’t mean you will publish it.
Quick copywriting tip: If you’re stuck on copy, it’s often good to start with the benefit bullets (write a bunch of exciting bullet benefits and you’ll get in the mood).
You’ll find the best writers have a specific time of the day where they write. Everyday they sit down and write their 1,000 words…or whatever their goal is. Perhaps they have a specific place they sit down to write. Some use an egg timer to write for 33 minutes and 33 seconds. Some even have writing clothes they throw on like a bathrobe or hat.
The key here is they have a routine for writing. What is your writing routine? What? You don’t have one? So that’s the problem…
What about marketing your business? What’s your daily routine for marketing? Perhaps you spend 30 minutes examining your Adwords account, writing new ads, and finding new keyword phrases every morning. Or maybe you spend 30 minutes contacting new JV partners. I could name off a lot of possible marketing routines here.
Sometimes it’s not as much as about what all is in your routine as the fact you have one. And no, reading forums is NOT a marketing routine. It may be research for your real marketing routine, but it is not marketing.
What is it you do EVERY day to push your business forward even when nothing “exciting” is going on?
The same advice to getting started in your business. A lot of people are waiting for everything to get in place. They want to know exactly what to focus on in their business. They want to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that their product sells. They want to get just the right design on their website before they start.
All of those are excuses for getting out there and getting the momentum going. Get your site up and start working on it. Add some content. Once you get some feedback (notice that little comment tab on this site) you’ll know what to change to better target your market.
Instead of spending a fortune on design on day one, test the market and make sure they’re actually interested in what you’re offering. Then use the profits to pay the designer.
Instead of wanting to be the “overnight social media sensation,” just get involved. Setup your Twitter account. Subscribe to some great people like that wonderful @TerryDean or perhaps a little @BenSettle with a side of @healymonster.
When you start publishing to your email list, you have to start with one subscribe…YOU. Maybe your mom if you can convince her.
Everything starts slow and you have to use daily momentum to get it moving. And while there are products that help you succeed faster, there’s no shortcut to the daily action. In fact, putting yourself in daily action is one of the most important elements of your success which everything else takes a backseat to.
Make a committment right now to set a time where you will write for your business, market your business, or do some other vital business building activity every day at the same time.
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Terry!
Ty soooo much! This is so true. We have to find the ways to keep going even when we don’t feel like it. But at the same time, what I tell people is that if you have many many days when you just “don’t feel like it”, then you are not doing what is a passion. When it’s not a passion on some level then you lose steam really quickly.
The trick here is to be in tune with yourself and know when to just keep moving and when you are pushing because you are forcing the whole business on some level. This can be tricky but can be done.
As Mike Dooley says” Do everything you can from where you are with what you’ve got”!
I gotta go share my vision!
Much Love
Max
Hi Terry..
Good advice…thanks…step-by-step is the way. Once heard a man say we have a tendency to overestimate what we can do in 1 year, but greatly underestimate what we can do in 5!
Your right again…let’s all get going, build momentum, and help each other up the mountain…
every grace today…..
Marc
That’s great advice that’s really easy to forget. It’s easy to slow your progress by spending time just waiting for the big homeruns to come along. But it’s the DAILY effort that creates real momentum.
When I played recitals way back when, the audience was only ever treated to the FINAL product.
A performance as close to perfect as I could manage.
Of course I never invited them to the hours and hours of mistakes I had made in the practice room.
Success is what happens in the margins. And most of it is just downright hard work. But if you love it, it hardly matters.
Thanks!
Terry, I completely agree with you. Everyone needs to work hard every single day to achieve their goal and not expect it to come overnight, with that day-in and day-out attitude, we will reach our goals over time.
Hi Terry wise words, It really is about the discipline at the end of the day, writting that article and that blog post finding someway to move forward. I plan in 90 days blocks of time the 90 days give me the broad sweep of what I need to achieve, these are broken down into 30 day and 7 days at a time setting more specific targets for each time period. I make a list of 5 things at the end of each day that I reall must do to move forward abd I make sure that they are done if for some reason on one day i find it impossible to do them such as an appointment I spread the tasks amongst the other day to still make the same progress.
Thanks for the wise words
Rob
Terry,
You’re right. We must be disciplined. Creating a daily habit of writing is what I will commit to right now. I believe we all have something to share that can change someone’s life. Its our responsibility to “respond-to-our-ability”.
It’s actually in the routine that I enjoy my business the most. As long as the routine includes mostly thinks I enjoy
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Thanks Terry for this inspiring blog. Just do some vital business activities every day. Even though sometimes we feel discourage. All we need is persistence in building our online business.
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I’m glad that I found this subject. Anyways, life is great and if we know how to prioritize things the possible way we can then absolutely we can do those things that we thought aren’t possible. We accomplished things because we believe in it and we strive hard to attain it. It’s not just an over night success but rather a long journey that we need to win or else we might lose some and get disappointed. What’s important is at the end of the day we know still how to believe in ourselves and capability.
Building momentum and getting into a working groove can be quite a challenge sometimes. I am still trying to create an everyday routine that works for me and hold me accountable in order to make this internet marketing thing work for me.
Hi Terry,
I really agree on this! W just have to be organised in every way that we can perform well, stay inspired and keep thinking of the positive side of it.
One of the greatest piece of advice ever read today. Having great focus on the business is one of the essential things in building momentum. Great job Terry. Keep it up! Probably will going to share this one to my friends.
Building momentum in my life has great effects on me, I’ve been building it for years there may be failures but I work hard to achieve it. And this made me more productive in life, work and business. Thank you Terry for this.
Momentum, everybody needs this. Imagine yourself with out. It is easy for you to get loose on the track. I always think that a positive momentum is around me, giving me direction and goal.