Momentum Worksheet
Shanae Maerz
Tome Dawson, a campus pastor at Life.Church, recently sat down with our Open Network team to explain the role momentum plays in a healthy, growing church. Drawing from scripture (and the movie Braveheart), Tome powerfully sets the stage for why our churches need positive momentum and what it takes to gain momentum.
The Momentum Planners are a family of planners that help you plan based on time horizons. The Daily Momentum Planner focuses on a daily horizon, the Weekly Momentum Planner focuses on a weekly horizon, and the Monthly Momentum Planner focuses on the monthly horizons. (We also have Quarterly and Yearly planners in our full set of dated planners, available to paid subscribers.)
Yes, many work management tools have ways to quickly catch action items. But how often does getting to those tools or being in those tools distract or short-circuit the process of capturing the items?
The Action Item Catcher pairs incredibly well with the Productivity Jumpstarter and Weekly Momentum Planner. Some people use it as their rolling task list and push tasks to either the Productivity Jumpstarter, their favorite Momentum Planner, or other tools.
You\u2019ve got more going on than the same old free planners can handle. You\u2019re working on multiple projects with different deadlines, alongside a whole cast of collaborators, clients, customers, and colleagues.
Our planners and worksheets aren't just pretty tools with random blocks \u2014 they're built from the ground up using time-tested principles from habit formation theory, positive psychology, behavioral economics, and productivity studies. They're the brainchildren of the same guy (Charlie) who literally wrote the best-selling book on finishing what matters most.
Each helps you keep a line of sight to the goals and projects related to the time horizon before it. When today\u2019s work lines up with this month\u2019s goals, you\u2019re able to build toward a better future rather than just remaining in a reactive, get-what-you-can done mode.
Use it when you\u2019ve fallen into a clickhole, before the coffee\u2019s set in, when you\u2019re overwhelmed and don\u2019t know where to start, or when you want to be more intentional during a time block.
Though it has room for five habits, I highly encourage you to stick to no more than three habits. One is better, as it\u2019s better to really lock in one game-changing habit than flail with five.
But I\u2019ve run with ambitious creative folk long enough to know that if it only had 3, you\u2019d rebel and bail. Use the Daily Habit Tracker to learn what your real habit cultivation success rate is \u2014 and I won\u2019t say I told you so. \uD83D\uDE1C
I\u2019ve chosen the planners above because, together, they\u2019ll go a long way to getting you started and making progress toward what matters most. All but the Momentum Planner set are pretty straightforward, too.
Paying subscribers can access more planners, worksheets, mini-workbooks, mini-courses, and Q&A sessions with me. If you\u2019d like to have more access and support \u2014 and to play an important part in funding more of these kinds of resources \u2014 join at the Plus or Pro level using the button below.
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Semester 1 of physics is the study of mechanics, which involves motion and its causes. After reviewing the mathematical skills needed for this study, you will be introduced to vectors, learning how to express quantities including direction and how to deal with vectors in calculations. Next, you will study linear motion and will learn to solve problems involving both uniform and accelerated motion, including the motion of falling objects. In the unit on Newton's Laws of Motion, you will study the causes of motion and will be introduced to motion in two dimensions. Then you will learn about different kinds of forces, from friction to gravitational and centripetal forces. Next, you will be introduced to momentum and energy and will learn how both are conserved. Finally, you will study rotational motion, solving problems involving torque.
Most of us have been there before. "We were doing so good! What happened?" Whether you're on a no-sugar kick, workout every day grind, or write a blog post every day schedule, we're all susceptible to 1 or more days of being "off-track." The key is to limit our days off and fast track our way to being back on.
For example, after 2 weeks of discipline and action, just ONE day of "weakness" or saying yes to a break or a candy bar, meant complete failure. Then one day of this turned into two days, which eventually turned into my lifestyle.
In my case, I didn't post a blog for 7 days. I also said yes to junk food and candy bars. I also smoked weed! I also watched porn! I also did nothing! I also showed up to my life coaching sessions unprepared and unfit to coach at my best level.
I'll be real, I'm not proud of those decisions per se, but I do own them. None of that happened by accident. It was a choice. I do not cover it up. It is something I will own up to to the people who deserve to hear it.
1. Accept that you made the choice to lose momentum. You could have kept going if you really wanted to. And it's not that you didn't really want to. But, you did choose to take a break. You did choose to eat a candy bar. You did choose that. The point of this is to understand that losing momentum didn't happen by accident. There's no confusion or upsetness over the reason why. We know the reason why, we chose! That's where power starts.
2. Remove the wrongness from your choice to lose momentum. You're not a bad boy or girl. You haven't sinned. All is not lost. You're not a failure. Just as quickly as you lost momentum, is as quickly as you can gain momentum back! Now that's seeing opportunity!
3. Learn from your experience. If you could go back what would you do differently? Maybe it is the case that you needed a break! And you wanted to eat a candy bar! Create space so you can have a break and eat a candy bar. Or maybe in your heart of hearts you wish you would have just stayed discipline. Figure out what had you fall out of discipline, then figure out a way to make sure that doesn't happen!
4. Once you feel the negative energy of "losing momentum" has dissipated, shift your focus to what it is you originally wanted. Whether it's six pack abs, a growing audience, or a sense of discipline, let that be your inspiration and motivation for taking action again.
5. Take action! Recall that when you first started your journey, it was not necessarily easy. Although it should be easier now, you may still experience a slow start or a resistance to taking action. NORMAL!
It's funny how what we want in the short-term sometimes completely goes against what we want in the long-term. Most of what we want, the money, the body, the accolades, they exist on the other end of short-term discipline and long-term consistency.
And, for damn sure, the high of achieving a long-term goal is far superior to the high of eating a snickers bar. One is earned and in alignment with our best self, the other is...a cheat code...a little hit of dopamine to get us by.
In this momentum learning exercise, students calculate momentum from the mass and velocity of an object. Students learn about the Law of Conservation of Momentum. This learning exercise has 8 matching, 6 fill in the blank, and 8 word problems.
We understand that not every instructor will be in a position to adopt a full-length tutorial for use in their courses. This page offers a series of conceptual questions that we have asked and analyzed and that we trust to elicit a variety of resources that are interesting and relevant to many introductory physics learning objectives. These questions could be used as discussion questions in an introductory physics course, or as homework or quiz questions. Many of these questions are featured in ACORN Physics Tutorials, but some are not and could be used in conjunction with the Tutorials to further advance resources-oriented instruction. For each question, we include a downloadable (and editable) PowerPoint slide with the question, our answer to the question, a few sample student responses, and an overview of some of the resources we observe students using and how we perceive these resources to be connected to introductory physics learning goals.
The ball/clay predict question tells students to suppose they want to close a door quickly but cannot reach it. The question then asks whether they would choose to throw a rubber bouncy ball or an equally massive piece of clay at the door to accomplish this task.
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