Getting Started: Putting Your Inertia To Work

The new year started almost six weeks ago. Many of us were excited about our New Year’s resolutions, and all the wonderful things we were going to accomplish in 2015. For many of us, the time has gone by and we’re yet to start on some or even all of those goals. Now is the time to start, you are not too late.

One of the wonderful things about human beings is our ability to be in the present. This very quality also makes it difficult for us to judge how long a task will take. Curiously, the task often takes however much time we have allotted. Still, we tend to overestimate how much we (and especially someone working for us) can get done in an hour, while vastly underestimating how much we can get done in a year.

So, six weeks are gone, but forty-six weeks stretch out ahead of us. If you start on your goals now, you probably still have the time to reach your year’s goal. If you start working towards reaching your goals now, you will be well on your way to making such efforts automatic in a month or two, and then you can cruise through the rest of the year. If you don’t start on your goals now, another month will slip from your grasp, and another and another, and the reality of reaching your goals will turn into a dream.

Inertia: the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.

When I deadlift, the most difficult portion of the lift is getting the weights off of the ground, getting them started. I have to overcome their inertia, their tendency to stay put. Once moving, I find it relatively easy to keep the weights moving to the top of the lift. The same is true for goals. Inertia plays a huge role.

Until you start working on your goals, the inertia keeps you from starting. Once you get started, the inertia keeps you going. Get started. Put inertia to work for you.

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About Dr. Doug Graham

Dr. Douglas Graham, a lifetime athlete and raw fooder since 1978, is an advisor to world-class and motivated athletes and trainers from around the globe. He has worked professionally with top performers from almost every sport and every field of entertainment, including such notables as tennis legend Martina Navratilova, NBA pro basketball players Ronnie Grandison and Michael Porter Jr., track Olympic sprinter Doug Dickinson, pro women's soccer player Callie Withers, championship bodybuilder Kenneth G. Williams, Chicken Soup for the Soul coauthor Mark Victor Hansen, and actress Demi Moore. As owner of a fasting retreat in the Florida Keys for ten years, Dr. Graham personally supervised thousands of fasts. He was in private practice as a chiropractor for twenty years, before retiring to focus on his writing and speaking. Dr. Graham is the author of many books on health and raw food including The 80/10/10 Diet, The High Energy Diet Recipe Guide, Nutrition and Athletic Performance, Grain Damage, Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries, and his latest, Perpetual Health 365. He has shared his strategies for success with audiences at more than 4,000 presentations worldwide. Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern raw movement, Dr. Graham is the only lecturer to have attended and given keynote presentations at all of the major raw events in the world for each of the last eight years. Dr. Graham has served on the board of governors of the International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists and the board of directors of the American Natural Hygiene Society. He is on the board of advisors of Voice for a Viable Future, Living Light Films, Vegetarian Union of North America, and EarthSave International and serves as nutrition advisor for the magazine Exercise, For Men Only. Dr. Graham is the raw foods and fitness advisor for The801010Forum.com. He taught the Health Educator program at Hippocrates Institute, served as the "source authority" for Harmonious Living, and authors a column for the magazines Get Fresh! and Vibrance (previously known as Living Nutrition). Dr. Graham is the creator of "Simply Delicious" cuisine and director of Health and Fitness Week, which provides Olympic-class training and nutrition for people of all fitness levels in beautiful settings around the world. He will inspire, motivate, educate, and entertain you like no one else in the health movement can.