Sustaining Momentum May Require a Fight

 MOMENTUM REQUIRES CHANGE
 
To sustain momentum, a leader must set the pace. 
To sustain momentum, requires you first to build momentum (a topic earlier in the week).  To build momentum usually requires change. 
 
Therefore, today we talk about change.
 
Understanding Change

Building and sustaining momentum invariably requires change - in you and your business.  So, let’s look at some important elements of change.
 
Three Growth Processes of Profound Change

      1. Enhancing Personal Results (”because it matters”)

2. Developing Networks of Committed People (”because my co-workers take it seriously”)

3. Improving Business Results (”because it works”)

Most important changes that seem to ’stick’ and be part of sustaining momentum:

      - Are connected with real work goals and processes;

 - Are connected with improving performance;

 - Involve people who have the power to take action regarding these goals;

 - Seek to balance action and reflection, connecting inquiry and experimentation;

  - Afford people an increased amount of opportunities for people to think and reflect without pressure to make decisions; and

 - Are intended to increase people’s capacity, individually and collectively.

The basics to making changes and positioning you and your organization to build and sustain momentum:
 
 - While nothing happens without commitment, initial commitment is almost always limited to a handful of people.

 - Start small, grow steadily.

 - Intended results and useful tools are more important than a detailed plan.

 - If you’re short of time and you’re up against the wall, fix the crisis first.

 - Remember that leverage lies in identifying the limits and lessening them.

This Day We Fight

Beyond understanding change and effectively managing it, sustaining momentum will require unyielding perseverance.  Consider the word persevere — it’s rooted in the word severe. If ever there was a word for entrepreneur’s — persevere is the one.  It implies that there will be times when you will not reach your goals unless you are stretched in ways others call severe or extreme.  You won’t be required to go one mile; you will need to go two.  You will be called to wrestle.  You can’t give up, you are soldiers who endure hardship, even if knocked down, defeat is not final, surrender is not an option, you rise to fight another day.
 
You must face the fact that en route to victory your trials may get severe.  Endurance, perseverance, steadfastness — these are the qualities that transform and build character, these are the qualities that will be required to sustain momentum.
 
DAILY PRAYER  
“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” (James 1:2-4)  In Jesus name, Amen. 
  
Commit to build momentum, regain it if it has been lost, and sustain that momentum to victory.  Make whatever changes are required, and persevere.  The size of the prize is almost always directly related to the size of the price!
 
Grace and peace multiplied to you.