The Snowball effect

Have you ever built an enormous snowman where the base weighed more than you do? What do you remember about making that bottom snowball?

I grew up in an area that received multiple snowstorms each winter that dropped eight inches or even a foot or more snow at a time. The snow often came in big flakes that we could catch on our tongues or quickly pack into solid snowballs once it accumulated. Those snowballs either made for excellent ammo for attacking the snow fort across the driveway or starters for a snowman. We would take the small snowball and pack a little more snow around it and start rolling. We would roll it this way and that way then change direction again and again. As we pushed it around the yard, what felt like it would take forever at first, quickly turned into just a few more rotations before we had a snowball over half as tall as us standing.

Rolling those giant snowballs is the reason that I think of building momentum and stacking wins as the snowball effect. At first, any activity can feel monotonous, draining, or like it will take forever before you start building the momentum and your actions start to return bigger and bigger results. Momentum is as real building your dream life as it is rolling a snowball. Create some little wins. Stack them on top of each other to start creating a habit of accomplishment and soon you start to see bigger and bigger wins.