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# Momentum
- URL: https://acmewong.com/momentum/
- Published: 2026-10-15T22:17:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T22:17:07.000Z
- Author: Acme Wong

In the beginning, momentum is more important than direction. 

Imagine you're in a one-seater plane, and let's assume you know how to fly the plane. You're the pilot, sitting in your plane on the tarmac or whatever the long road is called where planes land and take off. It's a private location where you can take off or land at any time, not like a major airport.

So you're in your plane, it isn't moving, and you know you need to go somewhere, but you aren't exactly sure where. Your phone is dead and you're toying around with all the navigation stuff on your plane's dashboard, but it's all basic nav stuff, nothing that would indicate what direction you should head in.

You know there's a city you need to get to, a destination scratching at the back of your head. You're all fueled up and you know you have enough in your tank to get there, but you can't remember exactly where "there" is. Oh, and if you don't leave soon and get there within a few hours to deliver something important, then the world is gonna blow up or something.

Okay, maybe the world won't blow up. Maybe you could sit in the cockpit for hours, or go home and spend days or weeks or months or years trying to figure out exactly where you're supposed to go. No matter how hard you think or how much time you spend brainstorming, meditating, or contemplating, you still have no clue where to go.

You cannot force your perspective to expand through thinking, but you can expand and elevate your perspective through action.

Close your eyes, spin around a few times, point your finger out, open your eyes, see where you're pointing, climb back in the cockpit, fire up the engines, reorient the plane in that direction, hit the gas, build momentum, and take off. Climb higher and higher, keep going, touch the clouds, look at all you can see now.

Is that the Pacific Ocean? Wrong direction. Your gut knows. Now you can, with confidence, make a U-turn, flip 180°, and fly inland in search of where you know you need to go.

Is that snow? Too cold. That doesn't feel right in your gut. Turn more south. Is that desert? Is this Vegas? Or maybe Phoenix? Nevada or Arizona? Yeah, one of these is right. As you get closer and fly around, it becomes clear: there's something you must do, something you must create in Phoenix.

The old you would still be racking your brain or trying to find the answers through meditation, but the best answers are found up in the air.

Momentum leads to direction, not the other way around.