Once I had a number purchased I then stopped or slowed down and concentrated on paying off the mortgages one by one, the first one takes the longest then it's like a snowball gaining momentum down hill.

New ownership is turning it around and has very good momentum along with the rest of our cities core.  

I want to set something that's actaully reachable so that I can remain encouraged and maintain momentum from that point forward.

I've read a bit about this some and interested to see if there is some real momentum behind it.

@Joanna Hollingsworth, I don't know if this will be much help to you since you are trying to protect the hardwoods below, but I'll usually take a large steel wrecking bar and attack the floor like a mad man by ramming the bar between the plywood layer and the wood flooring repeatedly with force, utilizing the tools weight for momentum, and prying straight upwards at the end of each stroke.

I'm slowly gaining momentum. 

Mentally it helps keep you on track and gets the next one paid off faster and it will be a series of small victories that will snowball on its self and create its one sense of momentum.

Keep the momentum going.  

Hope you can keep up the momentum.  

-Don't wait to take action, especially if you have already started to build momentum.