How To Overcome Inertia By Arthur Cooper (c) Copyright 2004 Do you find it difficult to get things moving at work when faced with a seemingly impossible assignment?
Are you frustrated by other people’s lack of ‘Get Up And Go’? Are they overcome by
enormity of job to be done. Do they give up before they have even started?
Or worse, can you apply these comments to yourself? Do you find sometimes that your own ‘Get Up And Go’ has already got up and gone?
Don’t despair. There are simple steps you can take to get things moving again.
It is like trying to move a loaded super tanker. At first it looks as though that you could never have enough power to move it. It takes time before any movement can be detected. But little by little it starts to move forwards until eventually it is hard to stop.
If you follow these steps you can tackle almost anything.
1.Renew vision. Fix your goals.
Focus again on what you are aiming for. Visualise end result. Fix in your mind and minds of all others involved final purpose of what you are doing and beneficial results that will flow from achieving it. Get enthused about where you want to be. Fix intermediate waypoints, aims and goals.
2. Divide up overall job into smaller manageable segments. Think of it as a series of little steps instead of one great leap. The entire project may be look daunting, so chop it up into shorter, easier, less intimidating tasks. Make each individual task sufficiently small to be acknowledged by everyone as possible. Eliminate doubts and doubters.
