Hi Gordon,

> Almost everything we do seems to build on
> momentum. My FORMER friend I saw at the mall
> went toward the negative side and just kept
> going.

> She built momentum, and it couldn't be
> stopped. Taking small actions helps get the
> momentum shifted.

> Keeping it going gets easier and easier as
> you pick up steam, and gain MOMENTUM.

> That sounds like a good topic for
> study...any ideas from anyone on
> MOMENTUM...???

This is a great and very important topic.... Many people have the basic knowledge how to succeed once they get started.... However they may never get started!

It can be hard to change your state.... If you're just sitting there, it can be tough to jump up and get moving. But if you're used to doing things all the time, then it's easy to keep on moving....

There's a biological experiment which was done, you may have heard of it. It's a little bit shocking, perhaps, but it illustrates a point....

If you put a frog in a pan of boiling water, it will immediately jump out.

But if you put the frog in some room temperature water, it will be happy to sit there. Then, if the water is heated up, very SLOWLY, the frog will keep sitting there.... Until it dies from the heat.

The frog has been lulled into a false sense of comfort, because the change has been so slooow.... The slow change was too slow for the frog to detect, and as a result it just sits there and boils....

I think this applies to humans a lot too! We can get too used to just sitting around, and then we wonder why is the water starting to boil all around us?

The "boiling water" could be all those bills you can't pay, rising credit debts, and an increasing struggle to keep up....

Gordon has for a long time been showing us the HOW. I've been lately really doing the chatteling thing, as Gordon explains in the Chattel Report, and I enjoy it! Though sometimes it's been a lot of physical work, depending on what you buy and sell!

Also, Rick Smith and Gordon Alexander have recently been showing us how to create a guerrilla product in one day, as a quick and low risk money earner.... (Check out Rick's forum for more on that!)

But the question here is, HOW do you stop sitting around, and actually get started?

I personally find certain kinds of music helps me to get going and keep moving, when I want to work at something.... I find music can affect my mood profoundly. If I want to work and be very focused at something, I often find some types of music really help with this....

How different music affects different people may be a very individual thing, so you have to experiment to find out what works for you. However, it's worth trying a few different things to see what might help get you in the right mood for ACTION.... I find focused and energetic music makes me more energetic too....

But that's one possible way of getting some momentum going! I'm sure there are many other ways too.... :)

Anyone have any other ideas on how to get yourself moving, and how to stay moving once you've started?

- Dien