Life inertia is a powerful force by which the direction of our lives “tends” to go. Habits, upbringing, environmental factors, morals and lifestyle all influence someone’s life inertia.
Life inertia can change. In order to change your life’s inertia, intentional effort and mindset work will need to take place. Someone will change their mind which will then result in how they live their life through various action. Changing your life inertia is the result of changing your way of life.
The idea that once something is in motion, it is likely to continue that way holds true in relation to inertia (life or other). What you focus on, you become.
In this article, we’ll discuss commonly asked questions about changing life inertia, what it is, and more.
What is Inertia in Life?
Inertia is the seemingly automatic way in which something is set in motion. Your life continues on a path that you put it on whether you are aware of what that is or not. Much of how our lives are influenced have to do with how our childhood was, environmental factors, personality and more.
As a general rule, life inertia is the direction that someone’s life is going. The habits, lifestyle, choices morals and environmental factors you identify with put you on a “path” which is the direction your life is going.
The idea that once something is in motion, it is likely to continue that way holds true in this scenario as well. In order to change your life’s inertia, intentional effort and mindset work will need to take place. Someone will change their mind which will then result in how you live your life through various action.
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Can a Person’s Inertia Change?
As briefly discussed briefly above yes, someone’s life inertia can change. In order to change your life’s inertia, intentional effort and mindset work will need to take place.
Someone will change their mind which will then result in how they live their life through various action. Changing your life inertia is the result of changing your way of life.
How does Inertia affect Your Life?
Inertia effects one’s life in every way possible. Inertia (the way your life is going) is caused by a series of choices, mindsets and beliefs that you embody.
This results in what job you have, the people you hang out with, what you think of yourself, what you think you can/cannot do, your self-esteem, what you think is available to you and so on.
The circumstances surrounding life inertia impact every area of your life. If you are not happy with where your life is headed, it’s up to you to make the necessary changes to get where you want to be.
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What are the Four Forces of Life Inertia?
The four forces of life inertia are personal values, self-esteem, ownership and emotions. Here is a better breakdown of each.
Personal Values
Personal needs are what individuals value in order to survive and thrive. We all have some sort of vision of what our life looks like or where it’s going. While that might be a positive or a negative picture for you, your basic values will be involved somehow.
People crave love, connection, comfort and safety (to name a few). All of your values will influence the direction your life flows. If you value safety and financial security, you might set out to make as much money as you can – sometimes without regard for your own passions or preferences.
You might value love and connection and might spend much of your time and energy searching for the right partner. Whatever your needs or values are, it’s so important to me aware of them and align yourself with them. Personal values are perhaps the biggest motivator when we set out on our own into adulthood.
Self-Esteem
When you look in the mirror, do you like the person you see? Are you critical and beat yourself up for the smallest things? Self-esteem is the commander of the motivation behind where your life is headed. If you don’t have high self-esteem, you might not take certain risks or jump on an amazing opportunity that comes your way.
The beauty (and difficulty) of self-esteem is that you get to decide how yours is. This is an amazing thing because having a strong and healthy sense of self-esteem will create a more passionate, fulfilling life. The opposite is true as well.
A low sense of self-esteem will create a sense of insecurity and inability. Self-esteem, including what you believe about yourself is perhaps one of the most valuable things you can invest your time and money into improving.
Ownership
Owning your life means that you take full responsibility for it. The good and the bad. The beauty of owning your life is that you get to create the life of your dreams, on your terms, however you see fit! The downside is that all of that is up to you and no one is going to cover for you, create your dream life, or undo years of trauma or crappy mindsets that you might be stuck in. It’s all on you. Exciting, isn’t it!?
Life is a game. You’re going to win if you believe in yourself and deal with your underlying limiting beliefs. Also, life isn’t fair and that’s just how it goes.
Creating the life, personality, mindsets, bank account, relationships, confidence and whatever else you want is all up to you and that is a wonderful thing! Look your B.S. straight on and decide that you’re future self won’t let you down. Chose that and own it every single day.
Emotions (Emotional Well-being)
Many people are more emotionally stunted than they realize. This is okay (as many of us have legitimate reasons why), however, it’s important to take responsibility for yourself and go the distance to work your emotional muscles.
If you have unhealthy relationships with certain emotions, trying to function at your fullest potential will be impossible. Let’s say you were taught to hide your anger as a child. Maybe you were punished for being mad or were afraid of the consequences for creating any sort of conflict.
Stifling these types of emotions will not allow you to explore them and understand what they mean to you. Even worse, people tend to subconsciously delegate meanings to experiences like that from the not-so ripe age of 7 years old or so.
Using anger or frustration as an example, if a child was punished for showing emotions like that, they might equate those emotions to punishment, lack of affection and/or lack of love. This is where limiting beliefs come into play.
Someone who has experienced this will subconsciously carry all of this into adulthood.
They might find themselves in an abusive relationship because they are so vulnerable and unable to speak up for themselves properly because they feel afraid or invalid.
Whatever the case may be, understanding your own personal relationship with your emotions and being willing to unravel any trauma is important in order to move forward in life. Emotions greatly influence all of the forces to life inertia. They can make or break you.
Along with self-esteem, taking control of your emotions and nurturing yourself to a healthy emotional state are vital creating the life you desire and deserve. Working on your emotional intelligence can help develop all aspects of your emotional strength.
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