Maintaining Momentum

A ‘day off’ can help us with maintaining momentum in the long run. I can be a real stickler for routine and the rigorousness of ‘practice makes perfect….’ and these two things do indeed provide a good platform for our growth.So too does the occasional day off. As sports people take a day off before the big race, we humans need time to regenerate too.

As I went to pick up the small boys new scooter in order to collect him from school, I caught myself doing it because I ‘should’. I think behind that lies a fear that it I take a day off, be it from teaching him to ride his new two wheeler, or writing a blog, perhaps I fear never, ever starting again……And this is only a truth if I make it so. Instead, the next day, I can pick up the activity again and nothing will have changed.

We all need to get off the treadmill, we all need to give our minds and bodies time to regenerate. Sometimes it can even be counterproductive to keep on and on at the same activity, relentlessly. Especially if our attitude is in conflict with our actions. It takes up unnecessary energy in order to keep doing something we really don’t want to do.

I have to remember that if I force the small boy to scoot every day, he will lose the love of it. Much better to free his hands for a treat from the shop on the way home from school once in a while. This is exactly the same for adults too. If we apply the same rigour to the same things every single day then we fall out of love with them. If we fall out of love with our routine then we become depleted. Much better to step away for a day. To nourish ourselves. Then, Once we return we can remember why we loved it in the first place. This is the way to keep maintaining momentum.

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