Maintaining Momentum

Over the years, one of challenges has been consistency. I’ve been chomping at the bit to start projects, but after a little time, my enthusiasm wains and I become disinterested. It’s happened so many times I’m can’t recall a specific number. If this sounds familiar, keep reading.

The thing with me is I enjoy learning and doing new things. Once I’ve gain a level of proficiency and competence, I’m on to the next thing. I rarely, if ever, stay with a thing until I’ve mastered said item. There are several areas I’d say my depth of knowledge and expertise are significant, but for the most part, I’d appraise myself as competent in many areas, only mastery in a few.

With the insatiable desire to seek out and learn new things, staying with one thing for years and years seems mundane. It seems repetitive, menial, and quite boring. I’ve often thought of certain tasks as a waste of my time and talent. One of the things I’m learning is just because it’s boring and mundane to me doesn’t mean it doesn’t have significant value to another. During a conversation with one of my neighbors last night, we both were astounded at how companies pay contractors for making cold calls. Each of us considered this remedial since every position we held in Sales required the skill. It was refreshing to meet someone else with similar thoughts on the matter.

The way I maintain momentum today is through discipline. The adherence to a code of conduct or rules with punishment to correct noncompliance is a summed up definition. The interesting thing is the word comes from Latin meaning to teach, educate, or learning something. It also meant an orderly way of life. I hadn’t been very disciplined in my youth. I learned and was taught, but I lacked an orderly way of life. I maintain momentum by applying those things consistently. I maintain momentum by building on my previous accomplishments and not abandoning them entirely. I maintain momentum today by living an orderly life. I’d say the biggest reason for this is defining and working towards my purpose or reason for being.

In my youth I had not a clue of what I was doing or why. I leapt from one thing to the next with very little thought, my actions almost compulsory instead of contemplative. Today, my filter is “how will this help me fulfill my purpose?” and if the answer is “it won’t” I simply don’t engage. My filter, my momentum, and its maintenance are a direct result of living to accomplish an objective. Others may have a different way, but I can’t speak to the experience of others. I can only speak to what’s worked in my situation. “Good or bad, I’m an example” are words from a friend in Dallas. He’s been saying it for years and I believe those words are as true today as when I first heard him utter them so many years ago.

Today, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, I am grateful that:

Yesterday I nearly completed another project. It’ll be finished today along with an additional one, but it’s fully conceivable and possible to finish one per day. The computer processing time is a bit lengthy, but I’ll definitely be able to get one per day done, at a minimum.

June and I got a chance to talk a few minutes ago. He shar

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