Progress: When you think you're getting no where but then you look back and see how far you've come.

When you are getting discouraged, getting tired of just taking next steps...

Remember Those steps are building momentum!

• When an 8-car passenger train starts moving, it seems to take forever to get in motion. But once it’s going 50 miles per hour, it takes over a mile for it to stop.

• An airplane builds up speed to take off, then climbs steeply to reach “cruising altitude” – then the pilot backs of on the power, and “cruises” easily to the destination.

• When the space shuttle would launch into orbit, it would burn 90% of its fuel in the first few minutes to escape the earth’s gravity. From that point forward, the fuel consumption dropped to a fraction of that original amount.

That doesn’t mean we do all the work up front and never have to do anything else. Once the momentum is there, we have to keep it moving. But that’s a lot easier than getting it started.

Find teammates or allies you can turn to when you need a boost, to remind you to keep moving forward.