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The Magic of Momentum

Escape Any Rut. Build Winning Streaks. Use Forward Motion to Change the Trajectory of Your Life

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The Magic of Momentum

By: Stephen Guise
Narrated by: George Acevedo
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Your power to change one moment can create life-changing momentum.

In The Magic of Momentum, international best-selling author Stephen Guise reveals how momentum works differently in our behavior and lives than it does in other areas. For example, in physics, momentum is a predictable and simple equation (p = mv). Sports momentum is defined by team scoring streaks or players making game-changing plays.

Behavioral momentum, however, is far more powerful than other forms of momentum. It’s not the “string of successes” we often perceive it to be. Behavioral momentum is layered and exponential because every action you take changes how your brain interprets that behavior.

Momentum is the hidden difference between success and failure. It is always active. Though unheralded, momentum affects every single moment of our lives. The smallest action can bring someone out of a seemingly insurmountable struggle if it triggers a reversal in momentum.

Listen to The Magic of Momentum today, and discover your true potential with life’s most powerful force.

©2022 Stephen Guise (P)2022 Stephen Guise Personal Development Personal Success Success Magic Inspiring
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Stephen Guise continues to produce the best content for productivity and getting stuff done with systems that work! I have now binge read 3 Guise books - Imperfectionist, mini habits and momentum. All 3 are so easy to listen to with clear, funny and easy to understand language. I was jumping from author to author, book to book to find answers on how to get shit done in my life but nothing worked until now! It’s easy, being an imperfectionist, creating mini habits and using momentum is the key to my life now and every day is so much easier than before and I don’t feel overwhelmed with big goals, big tasks and reaching burn out!

Stephen Guise thank you so much for your amazing words in every one of your books! They have helped me become the person I have been trying to find for years of personal development. I feel like your books were wrote for me.

Amazing, incredible and binge worthy material.

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This book is simple, brilliant and effective. I have worked for 20 years in self help and have never felt so inspired and clear in my mind. The stategies got to work straight away. Thank you!

A must read!

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This is the second of Stephen’s books that I have listened to now. This is accessible, easy to listen to and just makes so much sense. I wish I had listened to it years ago! I started to implement the strategies that he recommended straight away and they are making such a difference to my actions and thought processes. I highly recommend that you give this book a listen to. I will be recommending to all my friends.

Fantastic

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This book has the potential to change your momentum, and thus your life.. Recommend it

Loved it ..

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This book repeatedly uses the word momentum without ever defining it clearly or distinguishing it from perseverance, persistence, or resilience. Instead of offering a coherent framework, the author relies heavily on sports anecdotes, celebrity stories, and his own success narrative, treating them as universal lessons while ignoring the structural conditions that made those outcomes possible.

The sports metaphors are especially misleading. Professional athletes are paid to practise, fail, recover, and try again inside heavily supported systems that include teams, coaches, scholarships, sponsorships, and financial safety nets. Most readers do not live in environments where failure is affordable or absorbed collectively. Using athletes as proof that “momentum builds momentum” quietly erases class privilege, institutional backing, and survivorship bias.

The book also stretches the concept of momentum to absurd lengths — at one point suggesting that exercising, feeling good, and then intervening to save someone’s life is evidence of momentum. This reframes empathy and moral action as by-products of self-optimisation, which is both conceptually confused and ethically uncomfortable.

What is consistently missing are the realities that actually derail people’s efforts: financial stress, family pressure, abusive relationships, lack of feedback, physical pain, overwhelm, unclear tasks, and unsupported risk. These are not failures of momentum or mindset, yet the book subtly encourages readers to internalise them as such.

Ultimately, this is not a book about momentum so much as a motivational retelling of cumulative advantage. Success is explained after the fact, support systems are omitted, and rare exceptions are presented as general rules. Readers looking for clarity, precision, or psychologically grounded insight may find this book frustratingly vague — and those struggling under real constraints may find it quietly invalidating.

This is not momentum but a Vague Rebranding of Perseverance That Ignores Reality

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