Scott Smigler's BlogFounder of Exclusive Concepts and Conversions On Demand

What is interia? It’s the status quo. Something in motion tends to remain in motion. Something without motion tends to remain motionless.

The concept of intertia is powerful because it pervades every aspect of life and society. It’s the reason you stay at a job you don’t like. It’s the reason routines develop in your daily life. And, it’s even the reason you marry that person you’ve been dating for the past hundred years. Change is difficult. The fear of change gives birth to consistency. Taking the easy route. Moving along in the same way you’ve been moving along. Continuing to move in the direction you’ve been moving in, simply because that’s the direction you’ve been moving in, not because it’s taking you where you want to go.

In the end, intertia is the reason things don’t get done. It’s the reason that many people won’t find happiness. And, it’s the reason that many won’t achieve those lofty goals they set for themselves at important intervals throughout their lives.

You think about breaking the pattern. You convince yourself you will. Then, when it comes time to break the momentum that has been building over the years, you realize how difficult it is to stop that boulder that’s been rolling down the mountain-side, seemingly forever.

The boulder can be stopped, but it takes more than thought and desire to disrupt its path. It takes action, and following that action, it takes will. Will to continue that countervailing action, and to continue taking this action, in whatever form it manifests itself, until that boulder is stopped. Once the boulder is stopped, you can point it in a new direction… the right direction… and let it fly.