While the world winds down for the Christmas and New Year break, Neil cautions against letting your professional flywheel come to a complete stop. He explains the physics of momentum - mass times velocity - and warns that it is far harder to build momentum from scratch than it is to maintain it. Rather than advocating for a holiday without rest, Neil suggests a balanced approach: performing at least one small, meaningful task every day to keep your velocity steady so that you can hit the ground running in the new year.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

It takes significant energy to get a "flywheel" up to speed, but even a slight easing of effort can cause it to slow down noticeably.

Neil defines momentum as mass X velocity; to increase your business's impact, you must increase your speed, your output, or both.

While many businesses shut down for weeks in December, losing that internal drive can make restarting in January feel much more difficult.

To preserve your progress, aim to do something every single day - even during the holidays - that maintains your direction of travel.

Use the downtime when others are ‘flopped out on the sofa, to read a recommended book or brainstorm your goals for the upcoming year.

BEST MOMENTS

"The more momentum a thing has, the harder it will be to stop."

"It’s much harder to build up than to maintain. It’s much harder to spin a flywheel up to speed than it is to just slow it down very, very slightly."

"When we're on our A-game, on our mission, when everything's flowing, we feel different. Our momentum carries us along."

"Do something every day that keeps your momentum ticking along. Not growing, just maintaining your velocity and your direction of travel."

"Your momentum was built up over weeks and months, and it's lost more quickly than it was built."

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

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