Keep Firing – From the desk of Adam Thomas

Momentum isn’t free.

The idea of “Keep Firing,” at the beginning of the month, reflected a passion for keeping going. Just strive. Show up.

At the beginning of the month, I wrote:

When I am “figuring out” something, it is usually the point where I am scared. The “resistance” (see the reread candidate) has me locked up.

Now, the minute I start “figuring,” I take a moment and turn it into “firing.”

Keep Firing, May 2017

I missed the entire middle. The middle between figuring and firing is the point. It’s constant and continual.

It isn’t as simple as just “transferring energy.” It isn’t just a statement, a switch, or a movement. Our brains are a little more complicated than that, and as I mentioned before, the momentum has a cost.

That cost comes in the form of many things, represented by what Steve Pressfield calls, “The Resistance” and comes in many forms. Sometimes, I saw the resistance as some foreign threat, when it fact it isn’t. It’s our toll. To”keep firing,” we have to pay it.

How do we pay?

Trying new things in small batches, making promises, identifying with our future self, those are good ways to refill the tank.

We don’t just do it once. Resistance comes again and again. We have to keep our tank refilled.

Then we can keep our momentum, and keep firing.

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Have you ever got to the point where you just keep talking?

I feel like we’ve all been there.

Here is how it happens to me:

Get an idea

Find the resources and people that might help

Get some research

Start figuring…

And figuring….

And figure some more

I once heard Ramit Sethi say “THERE IS NOTHING TO FIGURE OUT.”

As I continue living, I am starting to see that there is a lot of truth to that.

When I am “figuring out” something, it is usually the point where I am scared. The “resistance” (see the reread candidate) has me locked up.

Now, the minute I start “figuring,” I take a moment and turn it into “firing.”

That is where the ignition begins, and the rubber hits the road.

Learning to switch those words around have led to a ton of growth over the last few years.

That is why it is the theme for the month of May.

At the end of last year, I wrote a newsletter highlighting the “three tenets of leadership.” Each month, I take a topic related to one of the three tenets and write about my ideas and experience around the topic.

Reread candidate

War of Art by Steven Pressfield – Pressfield tackles why we don’t just execute. This is a book that I have both digitally and physically, and one I ship to people often. Read it and keep firing.