Momentum is a game-changer.
Sometimes, we find ourselves making dramatic changes that aren’t sustainable, and ultimately we fail.
Last night, I was catching up on some personal work and I played one of my favorite YouTube movies in the background. It’s called How To Run 100 Miles.
It’s a brilliant, snarky, truthful, 30-minute story about two friends running a 100-mile ultra-marathon race in the mountains. I watch it when I want to feel inspired.
I’ve posted Brendon Leonard’s work before. Follow him, he’s amazing.
One of the many lessons from this short film is about momentum.
In fact, the name “relentless forward progress” came from the ultra-marathon community. It doesn’t matter how fast you go. It just matters if you reach the finish line. In fact, in the ultra community, going fast can be fatal. In the particular race featured in the film, “Run Rabbit Run” you start out going straight up a hill. Apparently, the race managers say that no one who has ever made it to the top of that hill first has ended up winning the race.
Classic burnout.
I make the mistake of looking for short term gains, spikes, and dramatic change all the time. What’s more important than that is just not stopping.
Power hike if you have to. Walk if you have to.
What’s important to take away from this film is that inertia is very real and very powerful.
Take a small step, today. Even try to hold yourself back from taking a big step and see how it goes. It’s a never-ending battle for me, but I guess that’s just life.