Daily blog (audio): It uses half to just get going [Don't we all?]

<p>It uses half to just get going [Don't we all?]&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>I heard the other day that a space rocket uses 95% of its fuel to ‘break orbit’.</p> <p>You know – get off the ground and into space where it will use much less to pootle round.</p> <p>I did, of course, fact check this.</p> <p>It’s not quite right – more like a third to a half.</p> <p>Give or take, dependant on the rocket and, of course, how far it’s going.</p> <p>It’s a lot though isn’t it?</p> <p>Half the energy used in the first few minutes of a number of days or weeks.</p> <p>A fraction of a single percentage of the total time.</p> <p>The getting going.</p> <p>Overcoming that inertia.</p> <p>“a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force”</p> <p>Or;</p> <p>“a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged”</p> <p>Once we feel we’ve got going at anything, that next bit is a little bit easier.</p> <p>The next bit easier still.</p> <p>On average.</p> <p>Whether we’ve “stopped” for years or just a few days.</p> <p>Getting going again can feel the hardest bit.</p> <p>But it’s always worth remembering that have never really stopped.</p> <p>Exercise is just movement.</p> <p>We never stopped moving for any length of time.</p> <p>Eating better is just eating.</p> <p>We never stopped that for all that long.</p> <p>It will get easier the more of those different choices we make, sure.</p> <p>But it’s probably not as hard to “course correct” right now as we’re telling ourselves.</p> <p>We don’t need that massive use of energy that it feels like we do.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Much love,</p> <p>Jon ‘SpaceX’ Hall</p>