“You’re like a bump on a log!”
“Get with the program!”
“I’ll start tomorrow.”

This book has been all about motion, but our frustration level may continue to grow because we feel destined to remain stuck in neutral. Life at the start of a new millennium has become a maze of fractured structures, options, and information, much like a spaghetti-bowl highway interchange. Opportunities open and close at an increasingly fast pace. The dynamics that are helping to create the present world disorder have been documented. The combination of environmental and social sources, as well as internal, system-oriented sources, has created the debilitating strain of paralysis of purpose now so prevalent.

The good news is that inertia is present in life whether at rest or in motion. Remember, inertia is a neutral law of the universe that explains the maintenance of activity or inactivity. The bad news is that our inactivity is what inertia might currently maintain. Here’s a common reminder of how difficult it can be to get going and keep going on our personal journeys. What’s the status of that New Year’s resolution to exercise daily? Every day can be a battle to carve out time and push our bodies to a level that will help our goals show in our waistlines. The natural inclination of most well-meaning people is not a lifetime membership at the local health club. Something pulls us back onto the couch. Realities of the universe give an assist to our persistent inactivity.