It’s easy and fun to dream and make plans, but the hardest part of reaching your goals can be just getting started. Some people stay stuck in the dreaming and planning stage and never even take that first step. If you don’t start with that first step, you will never achieve your goals. You’re going to have to eventually stop dreaming and take action.

Once you’ve taken that first step and start working on your goals, you may face obstacles, set backs, and find out that this is actually hard. You may be dealing with fears and find yourself losing motivation.

When things get hard, a lot of people give up. Sometimes they say, “this isn’t meant to be” and give up completely or sometimes they put it aside and plan to try again another day. The worst thing you can do is to decide that you have failed and decide you’re not going to try anymore.

Have you given up? Most people do.

That doesn’t mean the end though. If you fell down, you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and go at it again. Try again for your dreams and use something called momentum.

When people give up because things have gotten too hard, they have the wrong mindset that things will always be that hard. Well, it’s not. The more work you put forth, the more momentum you gain. When you put efforts into your goals, they build on your past efforts. After you have put so much into your goals, you build up momentum. Then things go much faster and they become so much easier.

To gain momentum, all you have to do is keep working towards your goal. Keep putting in efforts and don’t give up. After so much effort, momentum will take over. If you want to build up momentum faster, you will have to work harder and faster and also be willing to take risks.

Sometimes people need to take baby steps toward their goals and that is perfectly okay. Nothing wrong with that. And then sometimes people hold back and don’t give it their all for whatever reason. They may be scared, so they hold back energy and take slow steps. This delays momentum.

Now if you want to really build momentum fast, you will have to really take big steps and work hard at it. You can’t be fearful, you have to think positive and take risks. Then you will see how the momentum takes over and you’ll be sailing towards your goals.

Write your self a daily to-do list! I do this everyday and then tick off the jobs as they are done – this in itself will build momentum because you can regularly see just how much you are actually getting done and achieving. When you first start a project, there are 100′s if not 1000′s of perceived things to do – if these things are on your list and you just keep ticking them off – you are building momentum fast and you are more motivated to keep going because the end of the list is getting closer!

Planning is essential! There is no point in being wishy washy in your efforts. Make a plan and get to it! If you dont, you will have no real focus – just a goal and no way of getting there! And dont just make any plan – it needs to be good! If you are not a planner – buy a good one and follow the steps to gather momentum and achieve your goals faster! (anything from Tony Robbins or Brian Tracy highly recomended)

The biggest part to gaining momentum, as I said earlier – dont give up! Refuse to stop, keep going, push yourself, pat yourself on the back as you tick the jobs off your list, be like Nike – Just Do It!
And make sure you get excited!
This is how to build momentum at lightning speed!