How to catapult your progress by building Momentum

What is momentum?  Ever had a day that feels like nothing can go wrong

because you feel this incredible positive energy. Everything you do seem

to go perfect. Or those days that nothing appear to go right and thing just keep
getting worst. That energy is momentum and it can go either ways.
Positive momentum leads to more positive energy and negative
momentum leads to negative energy.

In life you can be in perpetual motion going towards an upward steady climb or 

spiraling fall. Or you can stay in a comfort zone all your life and not go

anywhere. The best way to avoid negative momentum is by not allowing

negative energy in your life to begin with.

But no matter which direction you head towards, you are the driver. If you

are going up, you also can go down. If you are at the bottom, you can

shift gear and go the opposite way. In this post, we explore ways to build

positive momentum and learn how to harness power to create rapid

progress.

So momentum can be energy, power, or fuel to drive you forward… and

understanding how to create it can be a powerful tool to speed up your

progress exponentially.  I don’t believe in overnight success, but I do believe

there are ways to upgrade your skill faster than others. Your understanding

of momentum is one of those tricks that will allow you to benefit from its'
compound effect.

To build momentum…..you need to...

Create a Plan of attack- Because you are going to war, and the

enemy is yourself. You should set and develop a daily routine that will

help you get closer inch by inch to your goal. Activities in your routine

should include the following:

- make Time to work on your craft and improve your skills (draw,paint, learn new programs... )

- define your weaknesses and plan how you will turn those weaknesses into strengths

- set out time to learn new things and fill your mind with interesting stuff 

- make  time to exercise to take care of your bio vehicle aka, your body

Increase Initial Intensity- There are many ways to build momentum.
One way is to start out slowly and gradually build up speed, but that

doesn’t work for me. The best way I discover is to get crazy and intense in
the beginning.  For instance, for a rocket to break away earth’s gravity, it need to blast

off from the ground before it can steadily coast upward, or a plane that is heading
full throttle on the tarmac before it can lift off.  Or imagine snowboarding, the best way to

gain speed is to go up high to the peak and then come down.  

So what I mean is that, to break away of your current habits, you need a massive

jolt that will send your mind and body into the direction to

your path of success.  To do that, you need to get excited, motivated and

plan a rigid routine and challenge yourself to stick with your plan.  

Be consistent- Once you have gotten all your mental and physical gears moving

nicely at a good pace, the worst thing you can do is to stop for a long period..or 

take a long vacation… because that defeats the purpose of the idea of momentum.

Like the race between the turtle and the fox..the turtle is always the winner. 

Even though, the turtle is slower than the fox, the turtle is more consistent with his pace. 

In contrast the fox is very fast, but take a lot of long breaks in between. 

Your career as a concept artist is a progressive one, where you never stop learning 

because new tools and demands continue to change. It’s not a race; it’s a marathon.

Shake up your routine- Once you have your momentum going toward success,

 It’s also to critical to keep in mind not to get too comfortable. You may think 

you are coasting, so you let go the pedal a bit here and there.

But complacency is very deceptive and it can rob your motivation and energy that
propel you forward in the first place.  

Once in a while, you need to shake things up and get outside your

comfort zone and doing something different. Do something challenging, learn 

something new, shuffle up your routine.  The human mind and body are very efficient

at adapting to new challenging and routine. You have to keep challenging yourself 

and trick your mind and get it outside your comfort zone in order to create growth.

Remember, you are the driver of your life.