This is my first attempt at freewriting, and I must say, it's something out of the ordinary to sit down and just write the stream of subconscious thoughts that surfaces. I find that especially fascinating is the fact that as I'm writing these words I have consciously no clue what the next words will be.
The topic of today is momentum, or more precisely the power of momentum. A topic that per se might seem a little bit obvious since we all "know" that momentum is key to just about any goal we aspire to achieve, but still isn't because very few of us actually practice it day after day regardless of our circumstances.
To be honest, just writing from my heart, I have no clue how I'd like to outline this article. So I'm going to start from a physics point of view.
Studying to become an engineer myself I've done my fair share of physics. And while I don't remember all Newton's laws in order and by word, the inspiration for this article is the fact that it takes a lot of energy to set an object in motion from a resting state. More than what it takes to sustain an already moving object.
This renders true to everything in life. If you have a particular goal, and you work towards that goal, let's say every other or every third day (or even worse once a week or once a month), the energy you spend setting your project in motion every time largely exceeds the energy you would spend just keeping the project moving every day regardless of how little that push might be.
Taking a personal example, let's look at my Steemit journey. Since I started posting on this platform I've been at it every single day since start, documenting the amount of posts, comments and followers in an excel spreadsheet. Not a single day have I done less than one comment. And I'm a 100 % convinced that my early successes and momentum here is a product of putting in a little bit of effort each day, leading to a compound effect as the days adds up.
Something important to keep in mind is that keeping the momentum flowing every day also serves great psychological benefits. The feeling of every day going after your goal and not looking back. Who cares if you spend as little as 5 minutes working towards that goal? You're at it, you're doing it, you will feel the fire, the motivation, inspiration will follow. And then again, once you sit there for those 5 minutes, it's a great chance those 5 minutes ends up at 10, 15 or 45 minutes.
Every journey begins with a single step. But also every day you got to keep walking. And sure you might get to the end goal although you are doing occasional stops. But I can promise you the journey gets a lot more pleasant (and quicker as well for that matter) if you walk every day, smell the flowers along the way, and never look back.
For those of you unfamiliar with freewriting, the art implies writing non-stop without pausing, just flowing, letting your subconscious parts of yourself to do the task of putting words upon the screen. 100% RAW.
Time spent writing? A 5-7 minutes tops.
Besides challenging myself this was an attempt to convey a profound message in another art form. I could obviously have written this post in a more formal manner, but I wanted to try to do somethings pure and 100% genuine and to witness to result.
So my question to you is:
Did you enjoy it? Did the different vibe impact you in a new way? Positive or negative?
Drop a comment and tell me if you would like to see a post like this every now and again. Likewise be honest and tell me if you like it more formally and that appeals to you more. 🙏🏼
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Funny enough our best writing is when it's purely subconscious, just letting your finger tips glide over the key board and draining your thoughts. I felt this was a well put together piece. My eyes couldn't stop following the words and although I don't know much about momentum but that didn't matter as I was listening to your inner thoughts. Good job! I cannot wait to read more of your articles.
Your words are very appreciated 🙏🏼 Your response in one way is exactly what I wanted to induce, happy to have you around my friend!
Excellent. Precisely my reasoning as well. I think @chr7is will also like this. Great read.
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!
William brother , article is amazing!! You said "Every journey begins with a single step. But also every day you got to keep walking. " !! It's okay but what about the first step, from where to get the motivation for first step? For example am trying to starting a new site from last 1 month but not able to do so!!
Overcoming procrastination is a huge topic by itself, but I must say my favourite method to take that first step is to make the step as small as possible. As you say, starting a new site is quite a big project. But if you break it down what are some small easy steps that are right in front of you? Perhaps, 1) choosing a name, 2) register the side, 3) setting up the hosting, 4) ....
You feel me? Just break it down until the next step is clear and easy to execute, then fuck it if you need to go slow, just do a minimum of one step each day and you eventually be on your way. 🙏🏼
Thank you very much for the motivation! You are the best!
I think I've found a new favorite writer here! I'm so glad I stumbled upon your profile! Hello from Norway (or from Africa ATM) :p
Thank you @susanne! 🙌🏼 And I'm glad I stumbled upon yours!
Still in Cape Town? Love that place, you should really visit the table mountain if you get the chance (do the climb also if you got time 😉), remember that was beautiful.
Greetings from Sweden! Although I'm actually going to Norway next month, ice-climbing in Rjukan 😁
raw content the most, hence my content are usually raw especially my vlogs (no edits, cuts, nothing). Keep it up, and let your brain juice flow!!This is beautiful @williamwest. I for one digs
Thank you brother! Yeah I've noticed your going very raw in your videos, besides being efficient it gets very genuine as well 🤟🏼
Very beautifully written and bang on. If you have a goal commit yourself completly to it. Think of it everyday and work towards it in big or small ways, as you say as little as 5 mins who cares.
I have a sinilar journey on steemit, but I write alternate days and the day I am not writing I catch up on comments. Its been a great journey so far :)
Yeah you seem to be doing quite well on your channel, as you say, keep the momentum going and you see the results 💯
Happy to have you around 🙌🏼
Momentum, indeed a fact that sometimes I also wanted to write whatever I wanted to scribble that comes out from my mind but the problem is? I never try it for I don't know if I myself will understand the results of what I am writing then, hahaha. But I think I want to try it just to chat down everything that comes out from my mind but maybe later for I'm not sure when, hehehe. But what u have said I guess can ease what's bothering on our thoughts especially if we are in deep thinking. Positive in my part, steem on :)
Thank you for your comment! I definitely think you should try it out, the best part is that you can set a timer for 5 minutes and just write. Very small investment!
Hit me up if you decide to post your results here on Steemit, would love to read that! 😁
Hahaha I will tnx for the tips I guess I will try it, hope it will still rhyme like my poems, but I'm afraid it will be a mess which will hard to comprehend hahaha. I've got lots inside my brained but I couldn't put it all in words I short I can't explained it in more comprehensible tone. So, momentum must be tried. Steem on! :) I'll update u sooner or later :)
Such a great post. When we have momentum...never stop it...never slow down because you will change that to the opposite way, which will drag you down and you may never be able to get back up!!
Spot on brother, at times we may think that stopping will give us new energy - and it will under certain circumstances - but more often it get more heavy and simply slow us down 🙌🏼
Yea. I noticed this how people out of high school/college accomplish so much and later down the road when we should be more experience, accomplished way less. Momentum!! :D
I never really understood the term "freewrite." Thanks for the clarification. I like your analogy of Newtons Laws. An object in motion tends to stay in motion...
I was confused myself first as well, but most say the artform really appeals to me, what do you say? Newton was a wise man wasn't he 😉
I think it was great. Looking forward to more of your work.
🙏🏼
@ray4u, when I read this post by @williamwest, I knew you would enjoy it!! I can't remember did I share his link with you? Either way, I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did! Good job @williamwest!
This is another really great post from you that I really like. Keeping a momentum is so important and as you said if you only do thing once a week or a few times a month it will be really hard to start up every time and remember what to do and how to do it.
I really love steemit and I try to make a post every day but some days I fail. Not a day goes by though where I don't comment and engage.
Thank you for your great content :)
You do a great job Nicole sweetheart😚😊
Thank you darling <3
Agree a 100% Nicole. Personally I strive to make a post at least every other day but regardless of circumstances I spend time engaging with Steemit. I find it extremely important to just keep building every day 🙏🏼
Thank you your awesome comment 🙌🏼
Thank you so much William. I'm so happy to find other likeminded people. Steemit feels a little bit like home :D
I really liked your free writing style! I think I’ll try it a little later! I’m looking to feature you in my curation post soon! Keep up the good work bro! It’s all about consistency!
Thank you brother, I'm glad you enjoyed it, was quite pleasantly surprised myself as well how it turned out🙏🏼
Way to kind of you my friend, and right back at ya, keep it up what you're doing on your channel 🤟🏼
@williamwest i totally agree with you. And I have been putting a little bit everyday as well ...for almost 4 weeks now.
It really is a labor of Love. And bringing interesting topics and discussion is something that I really take serious but also like to make it fun.
Thank you so much for your Contributions and your work ethic at Steemit :)
Glad to hear that you're going at it every day brother 🙏🏼
As you say, labor of love, good way to put it. And thank you as well Robert 🤟🏼
Yes, I enjoyed reading your article. And after I finished it I felt totally positive. And, though your post isn't a long-read, it is very 'deep' and has a lot of thing to think about. So I reread it like 3 time.Hello, @williamwest!
By the way, don't try to convince me, that all this is 100% raw xD CmonBruh. I used to do 'freewriting' long time ago, and I remember that only after a month or so I wrote something you could call readable.
I definitely agree with your thoughts on momentum and audience engagement. You need to be all the time on a platform if you want to succeed: post and then interact with you followers as much as you can. Even if its only 5 minutes a day and couple of replies. I even think that your work with the comment section is more important then the post itself. Because people really like, when mighty senpai notices them xD. And they can talk to him or her in person.
Will be waiting for you next post :)
Wish you a happy Friday!:)Hi @moviebuff ! Happy to meet you here and I also thing William did a great work with this article and his free writing.
Love your comment as usual @moviebuff! Haha the article was as rawer than red meat I can assure you 😉
I actually share your opinion that your work on the comment section to a certain degree is more important than your posts, especially in the beginning. Because if you don't engage in other peoples content you can't expect people to engage in yours.
Are you planning on dropping any content soon? You have awaiting readers here ;)
Nice flow you have there with your Freewriting mate, you kept to your path and shed some light on some interesting things.
Funnily enough I wrote a post about Freewriting the other day after reading a book about it. The post could help you with some techniques in the future! Here's a link to it;
https://steemit.com/education/@calumam/daily-knowledge-blast-accidental-genius-by-mark-levy
Thank you! And also very sweet, I will read your post right away brother 🙏🏼
Väldigt intressant! Jag skriver också ofta så, det är utmanande och jag lär mig mycket. Oftast är det också enklare att bara skriva rakt ut från hjärtat.
Så du är från Sverige men bor i Thailand? Eller är du tillbaka redan?😊Kram från Wien🤗
Ja verkligen, om man kommer in i ett flow state så flyger bara orden ut på skärmen, så om du lyckas avskärma allt om "hur man ska skriva" och "hur kommer läsarna reagera" så blir arbetet mycket lättare.
Ja alltså jag bor i Sverige större delen av året då jag har en masters kvar på KTH som ingenjör, men då vi har ett hus i Thailand spenderar jag så mycket tid där som möjligt över somrar och vintrar (gick även i skolan där när jag var yngre 6 månader om året), brukar bli ca 2-3 månader om året där.
Bor du i Wien? 😁
Åh vad spännande! Skulle också gärns vilja bo i ett varmt land några månader per år! Ja just nu bor jag i Wien, flyttade hit direkt efter gymnasiet och har stannat än så länge. Men familjen bor i Sverige och i Holland så jag åker dit ibland.💖Hur långt har du kvar på KTH?🙌
Ahh helt rätt, hur kom det sig att det blev Wien?
Åker till Holland väldigt ofta för olika festivaler faktiskt, ska dit nästa helg igen 🙏🏼
Har lite mer än 2 år kvar, känns helt perfekt i dagsläget 🙌🏼
Vad skönt att du trivs med studierna.💖Det är det viktigaste tror jag att göra det man brinner för.
Jag har mina kusiner och morföräldrar i holland, ska dit i mars igen.😊😉Och till Sverige nu i februari.
Varför jag flyttade till Wien? För att jag blev kär och tog första chansen att lämna Sverige haha! Sen blev det inget av det förhållandet men jag hittade min nuvarande pojkvän och vi har till och med ett barn tillsammans. Min son ör 19 månader gammal nu.
Vi har dock som mål att flytta till Sverige så småningom när vi har skaffat en inkomst som är oberoende av ort.
Ha en fin helg! 💖
Låter helt rätt i mina öron!
Lycka till med allt och njut av helgen 🙌🏼
TACK💓
Good post :) I really like your posts, keep the spirit and be the best
Thank you 😊
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Sometimes one doesn't know what he want to say until he reads what he writes :) I think it's super cool
people should try it often, connect to themselves more
Definitely, lovely to see you stumbling by this good old post, glad to have you around 🙏🏼