Building momentum in the business is a quite interesting and very significant topic for any entrepreneur or business owner, so in this blog post I want to discuss just about that.

No matter whatever business you are in, whether it is an MLM (network marketing) business, or any other type of business (online or offline), you want to go to the MOMENTUM stage of your business, as quickly as possible.

Why? Because once you get into the momentum stage of your business, you start to see more and more positive results, without putting in the same effort as you were putting before.

This means once you reach the momentum stage of your business, things start to happen for you, even if you are acting less on your business.

You start to get more leads, more response from your clients, more sales etc.

It is same thing like pushing a stalled vehicle. when you start pushing it initially, it takes a lot of effort, but once the vehicle has gained some momentum, you don’t need to push as harder. Moreover it will keep going on its own (at least for some time).

If you want to grow your business faster, your goal is to reach the momentum stage as quickly as possible, and then keep maintaining that momentum.

In an online business, it is all about getting into momentum and then keeping on that momentum.

When you have momentum, you’re unstoppable, but when you don’t have the momentum, you are more likely to quit your business.

So, What is The Momentum Stage of A Business?

If you read this article The Five Stages of a Business, it will tell you clearly that in general, building or growing any business goes through 5 stages :

Stage 1: Formulation
Stage 2: Concentration
Stage 3: Momentum
Stage 4: Stability
Stage 5: Breakthrough

Now in this blog post, I am going to talk about the first three stages only (formulation, concentration and momentum stage). Because reaching the momentum stage is the discussion of this blog post, so that is where I am putting the focus here.

As you can see, during the first two stages, formulation and concentration, you may put much more effort, but get less result (or very less result).

But as you keep going through these first two stages, you will reach the momentum stage where you start to see more and more result.

The key is to keep working (keep pushing) during the formulation and concentration stage, so that you reach the momentum stage as quickly as possible.

In other words, you have to hustle and work hard until you reach the momentum stage.

The harder you work on the formulation and concentration stage, the faster you are going to reach the momentum stage of your business.

As I said before, if you want to grow your business faster, your goal is to reach the momentum stage as quickly as possible, so that things start to happen for you faster. This means you have to work hard on important activities on your business and give more time to these activities.

Also, it makes perfect sense that you learn how to do these activities better. When you do these activties better, then you have leverage. And when you have leverage, you get faster results in your business.

Why Do We Lose Momentum in Our Business?

Many people want to start their own business, but they are NOT REALLY FOCUSED TO BUILD that business. They are not really giving in much time, thought or energy into that business.

If you are working on your business only once a week, or you forget about it and come back next week, then you have LOST THE MOMENTUM.

But if you work on your business everyday, you are SLOWLY BUILDING ON THAT MOMENTUM.

If you put in two or three hours of proper work on your business everyday, you are building on that momentum everyday.

How to Avoid Losing Momentum in Your Business?

Remember that things does not always go as we planned, and life gets in our way with other urgencies.

However, there are some ways to avoid losing momentum in your online business :-

(1) Join a good business opportunity and keep working on it. Stay focused on that business. Stay focused to build that business. You are never going to build a business or reach momentum stage of your business, by jumping from one opportunity to another every other month. You have to stay focused on your business and keep working on your business.

Have you seen someone open a fruit shop this month, and then get bored with that, so he opens a butcher shop next month? No, if you want to succeed with your fruit shop, you have to keep working with your fruit shop. Over time, more people will know about you and your fruit shop, and keep coming to your shop as your customers.

Building a business takes time.

(2) Don’t get upset when there are bad days. No matter how good your business opportunity is, not everyday or every week is going to be good for you. You are going to face really good days and you are going to face really bad days.

Your bad days are when you are seeing no result. This is especially true at the beginning stage of your business, when you are going to see more bad days.

Remember that it is normal, even great businesses face rejection.

The key is to keep working on your business.

(3) Stay focused on postive aspects of your business goal. Find something motivational about your business goals, what you want to achieve with your business, and read it everyday, this will keep you focused on your business, and also keep you taking consistent action, even when you are facing bad days or facing problems.

Along the same line, avoid negative thought as much as possible. When negative thought arises, read these positive aspects about your business or business goal. This will shift your mind from negative to postive quickly.

(4) Create a plan for your business. Your plan is your guide, that will give you clarity and also keep you focused.

Your business plan can be your marketing plan, where to promote, how to follow up with your prospects etc.

Create a well planned to do list of what you are going to do for the next few days of your business. You may not be clear about everything what you are going to do, but write down whatever you feel important to do, and as you go through them, you will find more ideas about what to next. As these ideas come, write them as your next items in your to do list (the things you are going to do for next few days).

Your business plan is not set in store. You can always change your plan according to what you feel suitable. Your plan will evolve, and get better as you keep working on your plan.

(5) Avoid distractions. You know what you want to achieve with your business, so your job is to avoid anything that is not related to your business.

You will keep receiving information about the next amazing business opportunity that you must join, but remember that any business will take continual work from you to build it.

So stay focused on the good business opportunity that you have already decided to build on.

Avoid all distractions. Whether it be by emails you get in your inbox, or in a facebook group, or a negative thought that arises in your mind.

(6) Avoid stress as much as possible. A little stress is good, but don’t get to a stage where you are completely burned out or exhausted.

Exhaustion is another big thing that can kill momentum. So avoid being completely exhaused, both physically and mentally.

It is natural that from time to time you have to work hard on your business, or have to learn something new, but with a proper schedule and well planned to do list, you can handle all that, and make your life LESS STRESSFUL.

If you are burned out or exhausted. Consider taking two or three days of rest. It will not affect your business if you take a break for two or three days, but it will affect your business if you don’t do anything about your business day after day.

Conclusion

To keep momentum going in your business, you simply just have to stay in the habit of working on your business daily.

But for some, getting that initial momentum going is the hard part.

I hope this blog post is going to help with that.

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