Designing Momentum

Master life's pivotal moments to create a legacy of unstoppable momentum

Discover how Brant Menswar's Designing Momentum can transform your life by teaching you to capture and harness the power of everyday moments. In a world where uncertainty reigns, this motivational guide provides the mindsets and strategies you need for lasting personal and professional growth.

Designing Momentum is your practical guide to recognizing and leveraging life's transformational moments for maximum impact. Through engaging stories and actionable advice, Menswar shows you how to use Moment Momentum to propel yourself toward your goals, creating a legacy worth remembering.

Inside the book:

• Adopt the WITWAW Mindset: Cultivate a “What If There Was A Way” approach to turn probabilities into possibilities.
• Harness the BUMP Framework: Build momentum through belonging, understanding, meaning, and purpose.
• Leverage the power of OGREs: Unleash moments filled with an Overwhelming Gut Reaction of Emotion for tremendous impact.

Designing Momentum is perfect for anyone seeking to elevate their life from ordinary to extraordinary. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a corporate leader, or simply someone who desires personal growth and greater fulfillment, this book will guide you toward realizing your potential one moment at a time.

Introduction xi

Part I The Context 1

Chapter 1 Stop Ghosting Yourself: The High Cost of Mental Time Travel 3

Chapter 2 Capture the Moment: How Everyday Moments Can Create Unstoppable Momentum 17

Chapter 3 Unravel the Five-Year Plan: Unlocking the Power of Uncertainty 29

Chapter 4 Fix the Big Goal Glitch: Empowering True Ownership 39

Chapter 5 Mitigate the Moment Thief: How Multitasking Steals Your Success 53

Part II The Blueprint 61

Chapter 6 Understand the Three Stages of Momentum: Learning to Recognize Where You Are 63

Chapter 7 Adopt the WITWAW Mindset: Turning Probabilities into Possibilities 75

Chapter 8 Crush the Critic: Outmaneuvering Your Inner Nemesis 85

Chapter 9 BUMP the Moment: How to Instantly Create Momentum 95

Chapter 10 Oversee the OGREs: Unleashing Emotionally Charged Moments for Maximum Impact 115

Part III The Ownership 125

Chapter 11 Focus on Some “F” Words: Why Failure and Forgiveness Are Fundamental to Unstoppable Momentum 127

Chapter 12 Fire the Fortune Teller: The Future Is a Present Creation 139

Chapter 13 Own Your Moment: Taking Accountability and Ownership Over Your Actions 155

Chapter 14 Track the KPI of Hope: Managing Your Desires and Expectations 169

Chapter 15 Build a Moment-Driven Legacy: Designing a Life Worth Remembering 187

Acknowledgments 197

About the Author 199

Index 201

BRANT MENSWAR is a bestselling author and personal development coach. He equips both organizations and individual trailblazers to navigate modern work and reach new levels of performance. He’s appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX, and has worked with companies like Netflix, Verizon, Hilton, Microsoft, ESPN, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

In Designing Momentum: A Big Goal Blueprint for Transforming Everyday Moments into Massive Success, bestselling author and personal development expert Brant Menswar delivers a practical guide to recognizing and leveraging life’s transformational moments for maximum impact. The author shows you how to capture and harness the power of everyday moments to realize your goals and create a legacy worth remembering.

Menswar combines actionable advice with engaging stories to create a recipe for personal growth and greater fulfillment. You’ll learn to cultivate a “What If There Was A Way” approach to transform probabilities into possibilities, build momentum through belonging, understanding, meaning, and purpose, and to unleash moments filled with an “Overwhelming Gut Reaction of Emotion” for extraordinary impact.

Designing Momentum explains how to unlock the power of uncertainty by unraveling your five-year plan. You’ll learn to empower true ownership by fixing the “big goal glitch” and discover how to reclaim your opportunities for success by banishing multitasking to your own personal ash heap of history. Finally, you’ll explore the critical importance of both failure and forgiveness, and why they’re each fundamental to building the unstoppable momentum you need to succeed.

The perfect roadmap to realizing your goals, no matter how ambitious, Designing Momentum is ideal for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and anyone who wants to grow, increase their impact on the world around them, and better harness the opportunities that come their way. It will guide you toward realizing your potential, one powerful moment at a time.

Praise for DESIGNING MOMENTUM

“Life is a game of inches. Especially when the world seems too much or procrastination rears its ugly head. Designing Momentum is a beautiful book to help us all plow through and find those ways to inch forward. Buy this book…read this book...but really…do something to up your game and move it forward (whatever your game is). We all need momentum...this is that.”
— MITCH JOEL, author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete and Co-founder of ThinkersOne

“With heart, wisdom, and a touch of wit, this book is your ultimate guide to building momentum — one moment at a time. If you’re ready to stop surviving and start thriving, Designing Momentum is the blueprint you’ve been waiting for.”
— LAURA GASSNER OTTING, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Wonderhell

“Packed with actionable strategies and raw authenticity, this book is a masterclass in building momentum.”
— ZOE CHANCE, Yale School of Management professor and bestselling author of Influence Is Your Superpower

“Brant Menswar has crafted a guide that feels both practical and deeply inspirational. The concepts like OGRE moments and the BUMP framework brilliantly illustrate how we can harness the power of small, intentional actions to achieve meaningful progress. This book offers invaluable tools for anyone looking to embrace uncertainty and build momentum — whether in business or life.”
— ERICA HOLBORN, CEO, Sandow Design Group

“OWN YOUR MOMENT! The time is now. This book will motivate you to build resilience and go from dreaming about something to actually doing it.”
— ALISON LEVINE, Team Captain, American Women’s Everest Expedition

“Designing Momentum is like getting a ‘personal legacy passport.’ Brant Menswar’s unique insights and keen understanding of human behavior teach us to treat each moment like an amazing trip to personal growth with strategy and practical application propelling us from destination to destination.”
— MATT WINN, Partner and Chief Development Officer, Maple Hospitality Group