zen, retiring, the majority of years and life behind us. But, if you live long enough to have to learn to slow down due to age-related realities, but you’re not quite where you want or need to be, you’ve got to somehow get it back - that momentum, that spark, that enthusiasm, desire and action to create that which you have not yet created. Yikes, if someone had told me this when I was young, I might have paid more attention to where I was going! But, my style of life planning was the “wing and a prayer” format, and it worked out quite well for me until…. Well, until it didn’t, basically. Or, somehow I lost my “faith” in that which hadn’t appeared yet as ever going to appear. So, I want to know, what’s a person to do whose basicallyLet’s talk about momentum. My momentum, right now, is pretty much limited to my momentum (that part Dr. Oz so graphically demonstrated on Oprah) which has been hanging around for some time now on the front of my body (no, it’s not breasts, or sex organs, it’s what comes below them balls). As the King of Vacillation, I have slowed down my momentum so much, I’m looking behind me to see where it is.

When you’re young, you have a certain amount of natural momentum, unless you gave up long ago, done in by childhood crimes and misdemeanors or have gotten stuck in some youthful addiction. Everything, your whole life, is before you. If you’re smart and lucky, you’re filled with energy, filled with hope of what the future may hold. If you’re really smart and lucky, you have people behind you who are gently pushing you to become “all that you can be.” No, not the Army (at least not necessarily), but your “support system” which is sometimes your family, sometimes your friends, sometimes a “significant” other of various teaming up options. Then, of course, you have yourself, pushing you and pulling you in and out of directions, unless you’re one of the ones who’ve decided and are going in the direction of your decision. (Got that?)

When you’re young, you are asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” This, in itself, is a misnomer because the “be” word is misplacing the word that would be more accurate, the “do” word. Being and doing have become totally synonymous with each other, usually referring to what line of work or career you choose to go into. No one thinks “I’m going to be kind” or “I’m going to be loving” or “I’m going to be happy” when they are asked that childhood question. Right there, the wires begin to get crossed. The line between being and doing become entertwined, so that your identity is all wrapped up in your doingness, no matter what you are doing or not doing. I suppose this is one way of creating momentum in a world that needs employees, that needs workers, that needs inventors, that needs bosses, that needs to keep the machine of commerce going, going, going. This is indeed momentum. Going, going, going, doing, doing, doing, busy, busy, busy. People get so caught up in the momentum of their lives, if they find they’re on a path that isn’t bringing them the state of being they desire, it takes an act of extreme strength to get out of that momentum and start at the beginning of another path with no momentum. Depending upon how much schooling, training, houses, kids, furniture, pets, whatever amount of energy it took to get going on that first path and depending on how far along you’ve gone, is how difficult it is to “stop that train” and get on another track. Sometimes we get stuck in our own momentum and then, blame , before we know it our life is coming up to the hill (the one, if we live long enough, we all have to go over) of becoming middle aged, elderly, getting older, becoming a senior citizen, retiring, the majority of years and life behind us. But, if you live long enough to have to learn to slow down due to age-related realities, but you’re not quite where you want or need to be, you’ve got to somehow get it back - that momentum, that spark, that enthusiasm, desire and action to create that which you have not yet created. Yikes, if someone had told me this when I was young, I might have paid more attention to where I was going! But, my style of life planning was the “wing and a prayer” format, and it worked out quite well for me until…. Well, until it didn’t, basically. Or, somehow I lost my “faith” in that which hadn’t appeared yet as ever going to appear. So, I want to know, what’s a person to do whose basically

u’re really smart and lucky, you have people behind you who are gently pushing you to become “all that you can be.” No, not the Army (at least not necessarily), but your “support system” which is sometimes your family, sometimes your friends, sometimes a “significant” other of various teaming up options. Then, of course, you have yourself, pushing you and pulling you in and out of directions, unless you’re one of the ones who’ve decided and are going in the direction of your decision. (Got that?)

When you’re young, you are asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” This, in itself, is a misnomer because the “be” word is misplacing the word that would be more accurate, the “do” word. Being and doing have become totally synonymous with each other, usually referring to what line of work or career you choose to go into. No one thinks “I’m going to be kind” or “I’m going to be loving” or “I’m going to be happy” when they are asked that childhood question. Right there, the wires begin to get crossed. The line between being and doing become entertwined, so that your identity is all wrapped up in your doingness, no matter what you are doing or not doing. I suppose this is one way of creating momentum in a world that needs employees, that needs workers, that needs inventors, that needs bosses, that needs to keep the machine of commerce going, going, going. This is indeed momentum. Going, going, going, doing, doing, doing, busy, busy, busy. People get so caught up in the momentum of their lives, if they find they’re on a path that isn’t bringing them the state of being they desire, it takes an act of extreme strength to get out of that momentum and start at the beginning of another path with no momentum. Depending upon how much schooling, training, houses, kids, furniture, pets, whatever amount of energy it took to get going on that first path and depending on how far along you’ve gone, is how difficult it is to “stop that train” and get on another track. Sometimes we get stuck in our own momentum and then, blame , before we know it our life is coming up to the hill (the one, if we live long enough, we all have to go over) of becoming middle aged, elderly, getting older, becoming a senior citizen, retiring, the majority of years and life behind us. But, if you live long enough to have to learn to slow down due to age-related realities, but you’re not quite where you want or need to be, you’ve got to somehow get it back - that momentum, that spark, that enthusiasm, desire and action to create that which you have not yet created. Yikes, if someone had told me this when I was young, I might have paid more attention to where I was going! But, my style of life planning was the “wing and a prayer” format, and it worked out quite well for me until…. Well, until it didn’t, basically. Or, somehow I lost my “faith” in that which hadn’t appeared yet as ever going to appear. So, I want to know, what’s a person to do whose basically

ymous with each other, usually referring to what line of work or career you choose to go into. No one thinks “I’m going to be kind” or “I’m going to be loving” or “I’m going to be happy” when they are asked that childhood question. Right there, the wires begin to get crossed. The line between being and doing become entertwined, so that your identity is all wrapped up in your doingness, no matter what you are doing or not doing. I suppose this is one way of creating momentum in a world that needs employees, that needs workers, that needs inventors, that needs bosses, that needs to keep the machine of commerce going, going, going. This is indeed momentum. Going, going, going, doing, doing, doing, busy, busy, busy. People get so caught up in the momentum of their lives, if they find they’re on a path that isn’t bringing them the state of being they desire, it takes an act of extreme strength to get out of that momentum and start at the beginning of another path with no momentum. Depending upon how much schooling, training, houses, kids, furniture, pets, whatever amount of energy it took to get going on that first path and depending on how far along you’ve gone, is how difficult it is to “stop that train” and get on another track. Sometimes we get stuck in our own momentum and then, blame , before we know it our life is coming up to the hill (the one, if we live long enough, we all have to go over) of becoming middle aged, elderly, getting older, becoming a senior citizen, retiring, the majority of years and life behind us. But, if you live long enough to have to learn to slow down due to age-related realities, but you’re not quite where you want or need to be, you’ve got to somehow get it back - that momentum, that spark, that enthusiasm, desire and action to create that which you have not yet created. Yikes, if someone had told me this when I was young, I might have paid more attention to where I was going! But, my style of life planning was the “wing and a prayer” format, and it worked out quite well for me until…. Well, until it didn’t, basically. Or, somehow I lost my “faith” in that which hadn’t appeared yet as ever going to appear. So, I want to know, what’s a person to do whose basicallyt up in the momentum of their lives, if they find they’re on a path that isn’t bringing them the state of being they desire, it takes an act of extreme strength to get out of that momentum and start at the beginning of another path with no momentum. Depending upon how much schooling, training, houses, kids, furniture, pets, whatever amount of energy it took to get going on that first path and depending on how far along you’ve gone, is how difficult it is to “stop that train” and get on another track. Sometimes we get stuck in our own momentum and then, blame , before we know it our life is coming up to the hill (the one, if we live long enough, we all have to go over) of becoming middle aged, elderly, getting older, becoming a senior citizen, retiring, the majority of years and life behind us. But, if you live long enough to have to learn to slow down due to age-related realities, but you’re not quite where you want or need to be, you’ve got to somehow get it back - that momentum, that spark, that enthusiasm, desire and action to create that which you have not yet created. Yikes, if someone had told me this when I was young, I might have paid more attention to where I was going! But, my style of life planning was the “wing and a prayer” format, and it worked out quite well for me until…. Well, until it didn’t, basically. Or, somehow I lost my “faith” in that which hadn’t appeared yet as ever going to appear. So, I want to know, what’s a person to do whose basicallyzen, retiring, the majority of years and life behind us. But, if you live long enough to have to learn to slow down due to age-related realities, but you’re not quite where you want or need to be, you’ve got to somehow get it back - that momentum, that spark, that enthusiasm, desire and action to create that which you have not yet created. Yikes, if someone had told me this when I was young, I might have paid more attention to where I was going! But, my style of life planning was the “wing and a prayer” format, and it worked out quite well for me until…. Well, until it didn’t, basically. Or, somehow I lost my “faith” in that which hadn’t appeared yet as ever going to appear. So, I want to know, what’s a person to do whose basically lost their momentum or is discontented with the momentum they’re riding? So, let’s see here, what’s that law of physics, I believe it’s called the “Law of Momentum”. No, that’s not right, but it’s something like that, and since that’s our subject, I’ll let it float by until the right name pops up (I do allow pop-ups in my brain). It goes something like this: “A moving object will continue to move in a straight direction unless acted on by another object or force, and an object at rest will tend to stay at rest unless moved by another object or force.” (All you physicists out there may be appalled by my paraphrasing.) But, nevertheless, it is a law of physics, which as such is a law of the physical world. What I’m interested in, always have been, always will be (an absolute statement, a no no), is how does this law play out in the “meta” physical world, (herein defined as the forces (not the objects) that have an effect on the physical world. According to quantum physics (and it’s PR tape “The Secret”) the physical life we live and experience is governed by the thoughts, expectations, desires, actions and demands we put out into the Universe (not to mention what’s down in the basement – the subconscious), determining thereby what comes back to us. In this way, we all have momentum, I guess, but is it a momentum that actually brings things in, or just allows us to go on hoping and wishing, or possibly praying? In other words, are we getting what we want delivered from the “catalog of the Universe”, or are we just looking longingly out at the mailbox, hoping for a delivery but never actually getting the one we profess to want?

For me, this is the essence of momentum and the question behind this article, which question is: “Once you lose momentum or choose to change the direction of your momentum, what’s the best way, the most effective way, of creating new momentum, creating new results where there have been little results in the past? How much energy is required to “build up a good head of steam.” Isn’t this where most people lose it? Trying to get somewhere but not quite succeeding?

Say you even have the dreaded “negative momentum” built up, you’ve been berating yourself, telling yourself you’re not good enough, you couldn’t possibly be rich or successful or have plenty of time, plenty of money, plenty of love, plenty of excitement in your life, young or old. Say you’ve been erroneously led to believe that you’re “beingness” is somehow basically flawed, you’re just never going to amount to anything, you’re not fantastically handsome or beautiful, you’ve got a zit on your forehead the size of an M&M, you’re too fat, too stupid, too lazy, too female, too horny, too much of a drinker, smoker, eater, TV watcher, shopper, too young, too old, too whatever. You get the point. Somehow, you just don’t measure up. You’ve got negative momentum, because you’ve got a negative self image. You’ve bought the program, and you