We wrote last week about the ‘flywheel,” which, once set in motion by a lot of energy, stays in motion. This operates on one of the central tenets of Physics: a body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an external force. Once a body is in motion it has a degree of momentum, which creates inertia.
Your life has its own inertia. The choices you make, the things you put your energy into, tend to set you in a certain direction. If you’re smart, that direction is a good one, and you find yourself gradually getting closer to your objectives. If you’re foolish, that direction could be just about anywhere.
The great part is that Physics teaches us that you can change your direction if you don’t like it. The not-so-great part is that changing directions–changing inertia–requires a new and sometimes extraordinary input of energy on your part. Sometimes that energy is simply sweat and hard work; sometimes it will be psychic energy, as you try to deal with yourself in new and honest ways; and sometimes it will be purely emotional energy, as you disentangle yourself from destructive patterns and relationships. Probably it will require some combination of the three.
But rest assured, change will not happen without you acting.
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