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Hello, and welcome back to the Elevated Edit podcast.

I have been on a roll today.

I have gotten so much done, and it has felt so good because I have not gotten anything done out of haste or panic or rush.

It has just all felt really good.

And it's a Monday.

I feel like normally on Monday I am scattered and behind and stressed and rushed.

But day, I've just really felt like I was in the groove.

And as I was working, I was like, okay, I gotta go talk to my podcast ladies about this.

And so I started, like, taking notes of, like, okay, what did I do this weekend?

What did I do last week?

What did I do this morning?

Like, what was different?

And what I realized is that I currently have the power of momentum on my side.

Like, have you ever noticed how once you finally start something, like, things just click and you're suddenly moving faster, getting more done, and, like, you just kind of feel unstoppable?

That's momentum.

And I am in such a season of momentum, and it feels so good.

And so y'all know me, I love to do a little research because I want to understand why and how everything works.

So today, we're going to break down how to create momentum, how to sustain.

Sustain it, and how to use it to make success feel effortless.

Because that's what we want around here.

We want high levels of success and high levels of execution and high levels of productivity.

But we want them to feel effortless.

We're not straining, we're not hustling.

We're not doing all those things.

We are doing things in a very feminine way that is extra super high level.

So let's get a little nerdy for a second and kind of talk about this science of momentum and why motion creates more motion.

Now, this one pulled me back all the way to elementary school.

I had not heard of Newton's first law, literally, since, like, second or third grade.

I don't know, maybe way off.

Maybe that's way too young, way too old.

I'm not really sure.

I feel like that whole season of my life was kind of a blur.

Like, I'll talk to a friend, and they're like, oh, yeah, I remember in third grade I started writing in cursive.

I'm like, how do you remember that?

I don't remember being in third grade.

Like, I don't remember learning to write cursive.

I don't know.

Maybe I just.

Maybe it's my selective memory and I only remember things I want to remember, but I can't remember that.

But I'm pretty sure it was around third grade when Newton's first law came into my life.

But Newton's first law is that an object in motion stays in motion.

And when you think about this immediately, at least for me, I think of like, okay, a ball rolling down a hill, or like a car and lost its brakes or whatever.

But this applies to so much more than that.

It applies to business, it applies to habits, and it applies to personal growth.

And this is why the hardest part is getting started.

Like, if you think about it, if you need to clean your house or if you need to write a paper, like, the hard, hardest part is getting started.

But once you actually get started, like, things get rolling, things just move and groove, and it's just so much easier to continue doing something than it is to start.

That first push is always the hardest.

It's like when.

And I actually did a ton of research on this at one point, and I should have pulled it up for this episode, but it's like, there's a certain percentage, and it's a large percentage of the fuel that it takes to get a rocket ship into outer space is the majority of the fuel is used in takeoff.

Like, after that, they're just coasting with.

The takeoff is what is so intense and what requires so much effort.

And when you think of this in terms of people and productivity, that is why most people never get started, is because they're like, okay, I'm gonna wait until I feel ready.

I'm gonna wait until I feel.

Feel motivated.

I'm gonna wait until I feel like doing that.

But in reality, you're never going to feel ready.

Like, you're.

There's very rarely are you going to have that motivation of like, okay, today is the day I'm gonna start writing my book, or today is the day I'm gonna make do that social media post that I've been wanting to do for the last three months.

And I'm looking at you because I've been there too.

I know there's one post that you're like, man, if I just put that out there, it would be the best post.

But I can' started, it's because you're waiting to feel ready and you're not going to feel ready.

But there is a trick, okay?

There's a trick that's going to help, and it's going to be micro momentum, small, easy actions that start the ball rolling.

So, for example, instead of trying to overhaul your entire business overnight, you're going to start by fixing one small inefficiency.

One of the girls that is in the systems academy right now, after our first coaching call, she was like, blakely, I was so scared that you were going to make me completely, like, cut out everything that I was doing.

She said, you literally shifted one thing today.

I'm like, yeah, because that's all we can shift at a time.

We're going to do one micro thing, and it's going to make a massive impact.

And this is why that micro momentum is so important, because these tiny little things that you think are kind of intimidating, significant, or like, oh, that isn't really going to make that big of a difference.

That is the momentum that really gets the ball rolling.

And like I said, once, once you start something, it's so much easier to go because of the snowball effect.

Success compounds every win, whether it's a small win, a big win, whether it's a.

I consider my failures a win because there's always a lesson and a failure.

So every single win is going to build confidence and reinforce the belief that you are capable.

So I want you to think of this sequence.

Action leads to confidence, Confidence leads to more action, and more action leads to bigger results.

Okay?

So I, I do.

I consider myself someone who is pretty quick to take action.

Like, I am not really afraid to look like a fool.

I'm not afraid to put a post out there and get zero likes.

I'm not afraid to start a podcast and have clue what I'm doing.

Like, I am typically someone who is quick to take action.

And if you take action and you fail a whole lot, you learn a whole lot and you build your confidence.

And so, because I am so confident in the fact that if I fail, I'm going to learn a lesson from it, I take even more action and then I do get big results.

But the big results don't come from me feeling like it or, oh, she's just naturally born with more motivation.

No, it's because I take messy action and I build my confidence.

It is just that snowball effect and that compounding effect is massive.

I want to give you one more example.

I want you to look at how an audience on social media can grow when you stay consistent.

Okay, one video is not going to do very much.

But showing up daily can build an empire.

And this is why you see people who go viral overnight, they typically don't sustain it because they didn't have the lessons and the failures and the action to build it up.

It's like when someone wins the lottery.

You know, if you study lottery winners, the majority of them, they end up back where they were in a couple of years.

And it's because.

And this could go super deep.

I'm not going to go into the nervous system in this episode because that is an episode coming up.

Because I am so into regulating my nervous system right now, it is not even funny.

I have a coach for regulating my nervous system and this information is blowing my mind.

But your nervous system is always going to want to push you back into your comfort zone.

Like I said, that's a whole different episode.

It's so good we're going to get into that.

But I just want you to think about how it's the consistency, it's showing up daily that is going to build an empire.

You're not going to have one YouTube video that takes off.

You're not going to have one Instagram post that takes off.

You're not going to have one Facebook post that takes off.

It's going to be showing up daily, building credibility, building trust, building likability, having people be like, hey, you haven't posted in a while.

Like, that comes with posting consistently.

I have people that are like, wow, like, you show up so consistently on social media.

And I'm like, yeah, because I have been posting consistently on social media, oh, for a decade now.

Wow.

Yes.

10 years.

So I started my first business in 20, 2015.

It was the year that I graduated college.

I started an online boutique and I probably could have kept it going, but at the time, at the time, it's so funny looking back now, it, it did very well.

It was very successful.

But I didn't, I wasn't the best with systems at the time.

And so in the morning before I would go to my full time job, I would literally have women like funneling through.

It was like a drive through and I would hand off their packages in the mornings.

That was my system.

And so that, that boutique did not last.

I think I had it for like a year and a half.

And I was like, I can't keep doing like, like this is a lot.

This is so much because I'm like literally handing packages over the side of Our patio at like, 7:00 in the morning.

It was way too much.

But I've been showing up consistently on social media for 10 years, and I, at least personally just now feel like I'm starting to get some traction, which is crazy when you think about it.

Ten years, and I would say for at least six of those years, like, since when I got in real estate until now, I have posted on some platform pretty much every single day.

That is a lot of posts, y'all.

That is a lot of posts.

And so now, yes, I can post and get, you know, a fair amount of engagement, but it's because I've been.

I've been showing up for so long, I have built a really a great audience.

Like, an audience that feels so good to me, especially in stories like Instagram.

Stories are my jam.

Okay, let's keep this ball rolling.

Got way off on consistency and momentum, but I wanted y'all to be able to visualize, like, how much effort you have to put in to get the ball rolling.

It.

It takes a lot of effort to get momentum going, but once you get that momentum going, Action, confidence, more action, big results.

Now let's talk about the biggest killer of momentum.

Over complicating things.

Since I have started actually coaching, like, I'm telling you, the systems academy is teaching me so much because I thought I knew a lot about productivity and systems and habits before this, but actually coaching other women, and it's almost like a mirror for myself.

Things I can see so clearly in them and, like, little tweaks that I can see so clearly that they need to do.

I am also, like, now mirroring back on myself.

I'm like, whoa, I do that.

Like, hold up.

I do that as well.

And over complicating things is such a big one, especially for us women, especially if you're multi passionate like me.

And I feel like the majority of you are because you're listening to this podcast and we want big.

We have big dreams, we want big things, but we tend to take everything to the nth degree and make it big and make it overly complicated.

But if you can systemize your success so that you're not relying on willpower, it will allow you to slowly and gradually create those big dreams without overcomplicating everything.

So you're no longer relying on motivation.

You can rely on your systems to keep you in motion.

So this is going to look like weekly planning and execution identity shifts, which is going to equal effortless progress.

Okay, so let's not crush our momentum with Overcomplicating things.

We want simple.

We want small, tangible things to execute.

And we're going to systemize that so that we're not relying on our willpower, relying on waking up and feeling like it.

You can rely on your systems to keep you in motion.

Now, this is the beautiful part of all this, and this is where I think I have finally landed in my life, at least in my business life.

And there are other women that I look up to, and they have been in this season for a while.

And I actually asked one of them, I said, you know, do you feel like this is where you are, are?

And she said, oh, a hundred percent.

She said that that is where I live.

And it's called the tipping point.

And at the tipping point, this is when momentum just takes over.

Momentum takes over, and things start to feel easy.

The tipping point is where you're no longer pushing.

You are literally being pulled by your own momentum.

Okay?

And I want you to think about this, like, how the first few weeks of a new habit feels hard, but once they're ingrained, they feel automatic.

It's like when a baby learns how to walk.

You know, they're like, stumbling, they fall, they're wobbly, but then in a couple of years, they're running.

That is what momentum can feel like for your life and your business.

And I feel like I'm.

I'm, like, getting glimpses of the tipping point.

Like I am at a point in my life and my business where opportunities are coming to me that a couple of ago, I could have never in my wildest dreams imagine them.

And they're not just coming out of nowhere.

They're coming because I have stayed in action for so long.

I've kept the momentum going.

I've stayed in action, stayed in action, kept moving forward.

And at this point, I truly do feel like I'm, like, a couple of.

Of big shifts away from the tipping point, when momentum is just taking over.

Like, my life is just being pulled by my own momentum instead of me constantly feeling like I'm pushing.

And I have made some friends this year that, like I said, I really look up to.

I do consider them, you know, at the.

The pinnacle of business and personal life and where I aspire to be.

And the funny thing about these girls is that they learn more and read more and study more and get coached more than anybody that I know.

Like, they truly are at the top of their field, in the top of their class, and they are putting in more effort to develop themselves than anybody else.

And it's like, whoa.

That is how you do it.

You stay humble, you keep learning, and you realize that you're never going to stop learning.

Like, there's always going to be another level.

And it's really fun to be around these women because they are not.

They're not frenzied, they're not in a rush, they're not in a panic.

They walk in a room, they're very laid back, they're very calm, they're very slow with their motions, they're very slow with their words.

And I mean, you'll.

You'll be around these women and people will just walk up and be like, hey, I've got this really big opportunity.

Are you interested?

And they're like, oh, let me look at my calendar.

I'm like, what?

Whoa.

Like, that is like my dream.

And it's just like being magnetized to them.

And it's not that they're naturally smarter or more intelligent or, you know, they have a leg up.

They just have the momentum.

Their momentum took over and now their.

Their life is easy.

Now, don't get me wrong, they're still working hard, but those opportunities are coming to them in an easy way.

And so I want you to think about this.

If you are in a season where things feel hard, where you feel like you're constantly having to push and you're having to find that motivation every day to wake up, just take the action, take the action, take the action.

It's gonna be hard at first.

It's gonna be hard to get the feeling of momentum going.

But once you get it rolling, like, I'm not joking, I finally, I just now feel like I'm stepping into this and it feels so good.

It is a feeling.

I can't describe it because I've never been in this before where things just felt easy.

But if when I look back on everything that I got done just today, I'm like, whoa, I got more done today than I would have gotten done in a month, two years ago.

And a lot of it was that things are just easy to me now.

Like, I know how to research more efficiently.

I know how to outline a podcast.

I know how to outline a YouTube.

I know how to.

Like, I prepped for three coaching clients tomorrow and it took me an hour.

And I have really high level, very custom coaching calls for them.

And it didn't take me that long because momentum is just coming to me now.

Like as soon as I.

Because I have a pre call audit for them.

And as soon as I felt I read through the pre call audit.

I was like, oh, this is exactly what we need to work on tomorrow.

Like, it just came to me.

But it's because I've built that momentum by reading books, being coached myself, listening to podcasts.

Like, you've got to keep that action going because let's go over this again.

An object in motion stays in motion.

Action leads to confidence.

Confidence leads to more action.

More action leads to bigger results.

And we want big results around here.

We are women that want big lives.

We want to show our children what's possible.

We want to show our friends what's possible.

We want to show the world what is possible.

Okay, do y'all feel how fired up I am today?

Like, I'm just like, I wasn't even planning to record right now.

Like, I've gotta bring my ladies this energy.

Because momentum feel so good.

And once you get that ball rolling and you keep taking that action and you feel that confidence and you create more action and bigger results, then that circle is going to start over again and you're going to want to wake up and take action and fail as quickly as possible so you can learn as many lessons as possible so you can get back in the game.

I want you to remember that the hardest part is getting started.

Okay?

Hardest part.

But once you do, momentum is going to be your best, best friend.

Momentum will take you further, faster than anything else.

And if you're stuck, don't try to tackle everything at once.

Just move, do the next right action.

Because once the ball is rolling, nothing can stop you.

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