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Slumps Are Inevitable
No matter how good and for how long things have been going, eventually we all will hit a slump.
It might be confined to a single pursuit or practice, or it might affect our entire lives.
Results that once came easily we now have to fight tooth and nail to achieve. There often seems to be no rational reason for this slump, but the effects are very real.
When we find ourselves in the midst of one of these inevitable slumps we have a couple of options.
We can continue on as we had before, relying on persistence and past proof that our actions should achieve our desired outcomes.
Or we can change things up and look for alternative methods to reach our end destination.
Both can work and both can fail. Often which one will work depends on who we are and the specific slump in which we find ourselves.
In either case, it’s essential to find something that we can get on a roll with again. Something small, even inconsequential is a good place to start. Momentum needs to begin somewhere.
If we can find a foothold of momentum in one area, we can work to build on that momentum and transfer it elsewhere.
Momentum is built by time, effort, and persistence. As such, our slump won’t be broken in one day.
