Isaac Newton (that’s the bright dude who “discovered gravity” by watching apples fall), came up with three laws that we currently call the Newton’s Laws of Motion. While we know Newton as a Physicist, he actually wasn’t just that. Back then, when you studied, you just studied. You threw in a bit of engineering here, everything on anatomy somewhere, some medicine over there, a batch of astronomy closely by, and then topped it off with a generous sprinkling of math. Therefore, had Newton been thinking about reports when he came up with the laws of motion, he could as well have named his laws, “Newton’s laws of report writing”. I don’t plan to bore you with the three laws of motion here and what’s Wikipedia for?
Anyways, Newton stumbled on something so valuable in his first law of motion that I believe it is important enough for you to understand at least this first law of motion as a report writer. It will make it a lot easier for you to get started on your reports. Newton’s first law of motion stated gently reads, “Every item remains the way it is, whether moving or stuck, unless interfered with”. See the genius? Not yet? Hold on.
See, when a car is packed, you must start and accelerate it before it moves. And when a car is moving, you must step on the brakes for it to stop. A stalled car remains stalled, and a moving car remains a moving car, unless you interfere. The same goes for your reports!
A report that does not get started, remains "unstarted", and one that is underway remains underway until completed. So here’s the whole point of this post. The most difficult part of a report, even difficult ones, is getting started. Once you hack the “getting started” part, no one can stop you until its done. I guess Newton would have stated his law as follows had he been thinking of reports:
“Every report remains unwritten unless acted upon”.
If you need any type of help getting your report started, just get in touch with us at Rappid Reports.
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