I had a client this week that was really out of whack.  He’d lost his vision and gotten way off track.

What do you do when your get up and go has got up and gone, you’re thinking this is just too hard and you really don’t know how you are going to do it?

Everything is a trauma, nothing is going right, your computer is not working blablabla.

I personally have overcome trauma, overcome  grief, disadvantage and lack of finance.  I don’t say that to bignote myself, but like all of us, we’ve all had our setbacks and honestly, some things you wouldn’t credit a person could emotionally survive.

And yet, we come through…  You know, once things are going wrong and there have been  some hiccups where things are slowing you down, it’s very hard to get going again.  If you lose momentum, it is terribly difficult to regain it.

But you must!!!

First of all you need address  why you are thinking this is too hard and is this really true?  What has happened to shift you from forward to slow, stop or reverse…  I

Look behind your thoughts and feelings.  How can you disect this and change this from negative to positive.  Don’t just throw around some empty affirmations.  I am a believer in affirnmations, but you need to believe in the actual affirmation for it to work.   I cannot tell myself I am Elle MacPherson,  it is not realistic to me so therefore I can’t trick myself into believing it – you must be authentic.  You really need to look into this and find the positive, seek genuine ways to discredit your negative slump.

Get a hold of your schedule (no doubt there will be a week or more of tasks now that you are behind in).  Take some baby steps,  break it down.  Treat yourself like a fragile child if needs be.  Set tiny tasks and reward yourself.  Before you know it, you’ll have completed some of the tasks and you’ll feel that ball start to roll again.

Time management is fantastic but if your motivation is gone, your time management, schedule and everything else can go out the window.  Your schedule gets thrown out.  You can be distracted, look at other things, it doesn’t matter what your plan is, you won’t look at it.   It doesn’t always start through a lack on your behalf.  This is the single largest danger of working at home with children – things happen and you have to stop work to attend to them.  A week with feverish children, sleep deprivation and an untidy house can very easily snowball.

You need to do whatever you can to get you back on track.  It might be another person to check in with each week / fortnight whatever – your accountability partner, having a coach in place.  You need to have measures in place to keep a check on yourself.  If you don’t have any of these, you need to do everything you can to get that “zing” back.

Remember your goals, remember why you are doing this, remember your desired income, your ideal client, remember your children – you don’t want to go back into the workplace.   No work equals no income.

Do some meditation, an energy workshop, whatever you need to do to boost yourself back up.  It doesn’t matter what it is – get your picture / vision board out and look at it, have it in front of you and get your passion back.  This is what you wanted to do – you started it and you need to keep it going.

Moral to this Story:

This happens to all of us!!  Sometimes it sneaks up and we’re in the midst of a slump without even realising it.  Just know that you can overcome it and get back on track.

ACTION:

Have a very clear vision.  Put together a vision board, have some tools ready, just in case you find yourself in a slump.

Full article following this week with more tips and tricks.

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