We all know how it goes. One things goes wrong, and then another thing goes wrong, pretty soon your whole day/week/month is shot. If you are lucky this is just your productivity, not your health, or your livelihood. We see this in public life often, Famous Person A does something bad/stupid/illegal, their project gets cancelled, their agent leaves them, the public shuns them, and soon they are stuck shilling infomercial shlock on late night tv.
It’s a vicious cycle.
In America, sometimes it feels like we live to see this happen. To see a people fall from the airy heights that maybe we will never get to. Sometimes it may be justified if the person is truly evil, but many other times, it is one bad decision or a simple turn of fate that lands a person in this cycle.
It is easy to fixate on this type of thing, to try to avoid it, to hope for the best, and soldier on. What about the opposite. What if we can turn the wheel of fate (or destiny, or karma) the other way.
What can we do to start a virtuous cycle?
The first answer is in the question itself. Start. Do something. Build something, even if it’s not the next great thing. Make a start.
Next, pay attention. Did that work? What did I learn? What could I do next? If the outcome was not what you wanted, tweak it, find a new way forward. the important thing is not to stop.
As mentioned above, ride that wave to the next action and repeat. Good or bad, their is something to learn from every action. Take those learnings and turn them into the next action, that turns into the next action, that turns into…
A body in motion stays in motion
Isaac Newton
Use momentum to power your virtuous cycle to your next great accomplishment!
Learn. Adapt. Rise. 