Momentum vs. Motivation (Episode 6)

Momentum changes how you think, how you act, and what you believe is possible.

In this episode, Kyle Hosick and Kim Fitzpatrick explore why momentum is so powerful and why it’s something you need to protect. It’s not about doing something big. It’s about continuing to move.

Once you have momentum, everything feels different. The goal is to keep it.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to another episode of Legacy Live. This is the podcast where Kim and I get into business, leadership, entrepreneurship, coaching, personal development. I'm your host, Kyle Hossick.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

And I'm your host, Kim Fitzpatrick.

SPEAKER_01 0:15

And let's take away another one. On today's episode, we're diving into the difference or similarities. We'll figure it out by the end of this of motivation versus momentum. We've got some notes. We have a board here. You may have seen in the intro to the podcast where me and Kim kind of riff through each episode before we get in the hot seat here, just to like do due diligence on planning. But this was a this was a real different one where you sometimes it was like, is that motivation or is that momentum capitalization?

SPEAKER_00 1:04

It's true. And we were really riffing back and forth at the distinction on that and the order in which it needs to happen.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

And that was different too.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Um, so I have a a business called Revenue Brand that when I think about the process of it, there was a moment I had motivation. I look at like I was motivated to start something new. I had the idea, which gave me motivation to take it from the page to the real world. But when I look at the weeks and months that have followed that motivation, I attribute the growth and the success that's happened to being addicted to the momentum. Um so it's not waking up every morning and going, I'm motivated. Um I consider myself motivated just kind of as a baseline. Yeah. But it's not motivation driving my 30 or 60 day outlook. It's the momentum and the feeling of I just addicted to the feeling of gaining momentum. That's what's gonna make this successful, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Yeah, and and momentum is action. Yeah, right. Moment is in the series of action, and it's these small baby steps between like, you know, motivation will start you and momentum is what will sustain you. Bingo. And that, and I love that. And I think back to when I was when I was building out my Legacy by Kim brand, right? So I built a personal brand out. It's called Legacy by Kim. We sold headbands, beanies, military beanies, scrub caps, like you, you name it, we had it. And it was absolutely fantastic. And one of the things that motivated me to start that brand was really near and dear to my heart. I lost my mom when I was 11 months old to Hodgkin's lymphoma. Carol, I'm gonna always keep her name alive. And, you know, she one of the things she loved was fashion. She did not lose her hair in her fight to cancer, and that was really important to her. Her hair was really important to her. I had always loved fashion. I was the I was the soccer player in like from when I was like, once you really started injuring your ankles, so it wasn't from six to 13, but about 13, I started getting injuries, and there was that tape. You know, the tape, the tape that goes underneath the white, yeah, the white ankle rolls. Anyway, and it would made the best headbands. So I was wearing headbands from when I was like 13 years of age, right? Like always having headbands on. I always had headband, I always had bandanas. It was always my thing. So I thought, wow, if I'm gonna do something that's gonna give back and help, you know, whether it be helping someone don that headband each day and like and we named every headband so it had like motivational like feeling to it. Like each of the bands was like Be Brave or Daring Greatly, or it was like these names where people got captivated by the the look of the name, the the look of the band, but by the name of the band. And so are we agreeing on the motivation becoming momentum for legacy by the motive, the motivation was for my mom, and the momentum was was inspiring someone else to be like, hey, how can we don this headband? How can we buy this product that was that was heart-led, it was all heart-led, right? And then it became momentous. We had, you know, we had 27 seamstresses across provinces at one point. You know, we had in this office and down below, we had like, you know, I think we had like five or six thousand headbands in one in like in a week, we'd just be like pumping through all these headbands and like bringing them out all over really all over North America. And actually, then it moved to international and it became this movement. So, what started with a motivation to really honor my mom.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Yes, motivation, momentum, and that's how you create a movement.

SPEAKER_00 4:45

It's how you create a movement, and it did. It created this movement. We did not, it created this ripple of impact and support. And, you know, the other thing we did that was really motivating was that I wanted to make sure it was we had what was called a gift a headband program, and we donated hundreds and hundreds of headbands or beanies to those living with cancer. And people could just nominate them and we'd send it to them for free, and it was all part of the plan. And that was motivation. And then the momentum was sharing it and talking about it. And then the first person that we not and the tiers reading through the nominations was like, so that's you know, the motivation was it was an idea. It wasn't necessarily an action, it was this idea. And then you to act on the idea comes the motivation, and then comes the momentum because you it is intrinsically aligned to who you are. And for those of you that are, you know, whether you're an entrepreneur, a business owner, you're working in the you know, you have a career, you're working with inside an organization, really it's thinking about what's my moment, what's my motivation today? And then what's the momentum of this action I'll take? What will it ripple and how will it contribute? And the more I believe that you are tied to a vision or a mission or a value, the more the motivation feels. Motivation's very temporary, but when you're tied to it personally, it feels a lot more fun.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah, yeah. I I think it's important for anyone watching or listening to be able to make the distinction for themselves. Like think of a time you were motivated, and now think of a time you had momentum. Hopefully it's right now, right? And you're you're nodding with us, going, Yeah, you know what? I can't when I start to feel the the pendulum losing momentum in that one direction, that motivates me to keep it moving forward. And for me, in the case of revenue, you talked about legacy by Kim. There was a moment I got my product into one store. Yes, and I remember driving home being like, that's momentum. You can have momentum, even it's if it's just the first thing that's happened, because you get to look at what the second thing might be in relation to that first thing. And for me, that was we got to get another store because this is possible now, and I want to maintain this momentum. So when I get home, I'm not gonna act on getting another store in a month because that's okay. I'm gonna act on it right now because imagine I had that feeling tomorrow instead of two weeks from now. And that that's truly how I look at momentum is I'm like, what can I do right now to just keep this feeling of forward progress and give yourself the space to know, you know, I'm learning that forward progress can sometimes have four weeks between hash marks on the timeline when you're trying to build a big brand the way I am, and that's okay. That's it's not forgiving yourself for losing momentum, it's understanding that you you're still in that forward motion. There's just a longer time between it. But I still do wake up and go, how can I make it 24 hours to the next exciting thing?

SPEAKER_00 7:55

And one of the things by doing that is it's create sustainability in your action. So you're not waking up hoping that something lands in your inbox. You're making the movement of who do I need to contact? How do I need to, you know, get outside? How do I need to figure that out? And it's these compounding effects, and that's the momentum. So it's important what you just noted too. And for any of you that are listening, or maybe you're at your desk, maybe you're watching this, is just to go back and look at your last, I would say your you get to do lists. I love the get to do rather than to do, you get to do this in your business. It makes it so much more exciting and motivating to me when I'm like, I get to do this. How lucky am I? Even if it's the most mundane task of life. I'm like, I'm so lucky, I get to figure this out. And you know, that's what it does. And if you go back and you look at those lists and you kind of see all the things you've done, the trajectory of where you've moved yourself, I can't believe some of the things we've done in the last seven, eight months. So I'm like, this is insane. And it's it's a blueprint to the next level, it's the next rise because success leaves clues and you're already successful as you're moving the needle through. So going back and like weaving that in and looking at that and checking that off. I also love to put V. I put it. If you look in my calendar or in my schedule or my my lists, they have V's next to them for victory. Nice because we're victorious in our momentum. And like those are the little things. Like so many of us are like, Oh, I didn't get these 10 things done today, but you moved the needle on five things that actually moved so much more for you. That's momentum. So just learning how to like appreciate that in yourself doesn't make it such a grind.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

The the other funny thing about momentum is it's it doesn't just live in your brain, people see the momentum. Yeah, and that you mentioned compounding momentum. That isn't just your responsibility, it's on display. So, like picture store number three when I go in going, I'm gonna keep this momentum alive, and I'm able to say, Well, we're here and we're also here already. And that store owner goes, hmm, these guys have momentum. Do I want to be a part of this or not? And that it's almost exponential possibilities when you get to say, here's the momentum we have. And it would be an honor if you become part of the momentum of this business for the future. And now they're a part of the momentum. And who doesn't want to be part of momentum? Yeah. Nobody.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

You know, it makes me think about when we first started our first cohort for Lumina Legacy, and that's truly what our we're doing. We're we are in momentum of pursuing our full accreditation, which is super exciting. And let's just give a quick uh download. So provisional accreditation from Lumina Legacy means that we are right now a uh recognized coach education school through the International Coaching Federation, and we are on our way to full accreditation, um, which is super exciting. So as soon as this first cohort's done, we're we're ready to roll, we're ready to enroll and really make this even more of a scalable business. But the point that gave the momentum was a lot of those students that are now enrolled in our first cohort and they're a founding cohort, they were witness to the idea, the momentum, the work, the, you know, from like you go back years of just like doing the work to become this ICF certified coach to building the business to that. There was, they were like hungry to be a part of that. So you're exactly right. They're like, oh, I can build something of my own too. I can go and become this ICF certified member myself. I can use this education and just 10x my business by being able to be a part of something that is bigger than themselves. And that's also part of it. People do want to be a part of things. That's why we're we are creating a lot of what we're creating is because people need community and people now more than ever. So if you are feeling stale in your momentum or like you're lacking motivation, do you have a circle? Do you have a group? Do you have someone that you can lean in on and ask these questions or really see what people have gone and done before you to be like, I want to learn from them. I will never take advice from someone that has not done what I am yet wanting to do. So being really careful about where you're getting your motivation from because you know, social media is slippery.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

It is well, I was just gonna go to social media because you're really good at like capturing behind the scenes and time lapses and painting sort of the picture of the momentum. Yeah, it's really like come be a part of our momentum.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Like we want you in here.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Well, and that happened not only with the students who enrolled, I would argue the faculty were like that came on one faculty member at a time because there was momentum and and it was visible, it was on display. And social media is a great place to when you turn around and look at your grid, like you're probably looking even at your own life on your personal account, going, I have momentum in more areas than I thought I did. And it's an easy way to just quickly flip back and be like, Oh, okay, I see what momentum is and I see what motivation is.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

And I and I have that, you know, and give yourself permission to celebrate yourself and get excited about that. And you don't find momentum, you build it. Like I love that. What's that movie? Um, oh my gosh, you if you build it, they will come. Oh, come on, we're so field of dreams.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Yes, field of dreams.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

Like and you know, you just think about that. It's like, you know, who's that actor in it? Kevin Cosmer. Yes, I love Kevin Cosmer. And it's like if you build it, they will come. Well, if you don't, if you don't have momentum, build it. If you don't have motivation, you build it exactly in anything. If you don't have, you know, that that next movement you're wanting to, you gotta build that. You've got to be that as well. And that's a huge thing we talk about all the time, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:36

There's an action be that there's an action that precedes momentum every time. Yeah, you can't get around taking that action if you want momentum. And that's the if you build it. He took action and then gained the momentum. We were talking about a pendulum, and it's a slippery slope because a pendulum by nature wants to swing back the other direction. And we were writing on our board and had to sort of like look at a locomotive, for instance, an old-fashioned train, and the entrepreneur is shoveling one shovel full of coal each morning into the engine, and that's what keeps the train moving forward. And that's probably a better analogy where you're not you don't have that backward resistance. But if you're not addicted to that feeling of racing forward, you're not going to shovel that shovel full of coal every morning. And that's sort of how I look at it, which is like, what's one thing I can do today that will satisfy my own feeling of what momentum is, and make me think tomorrow's another day, I can do another thing tomorrow. Check mark V on my day planner for today's momentum building activity.