How to Avoid Slumps in Business and Productivity

One persistent issue for big producers or highly successful people is the seemingly inevitable slump that occurs in productivity. Whether it is a well known sports player or well respected business person, sooner or later, they have a “dry” spell. The sports player endures agonizingly disappointing achievements and the respected business person that everyone admired, suddenly is drinking from a dried up watering hole with only a few flies swarming about looking to attach themselves to him or her.

Another big issue is a slump in sales of goods and services. Certainly the vagaries of the market place will impact and can even lead to such slumps. The economic conditions will impact a marketplace and lead to a slump in sales and/or productivity. Many outside factors can lead to a slump. One hedge against market conditions is to offer goods and services that are critical to the sustained existence or life style. When the going gets rough the market landscape can get tough. When you have a business that serves most of the market place your slump time should be less. Find a need and fill it, especially if it is something the public must have for survival or to stay in business. That helps keep the “wolves of slumps” away from your door.

Without a doubt many slumps occur as a consequence of the person achieving much yet running the same frequency for a prolonged period of time. This means the person is likely in a “push mode” working or producing in a fever pitch or high level of energy.

In actuality the human being alternates between contraction and expansion based upon emotions. The alternating phases also encompass a variety of energy patterns or forces.

The alternating cycles enable the body to continuously produce the energy needed to run the body and keep it healthy. When one uses a sustained type energy force for a prolonged period of time the body depletes itself of vitality. As such one begins to meltdown and loses momentum which will impact one’s productivity. The reduced energy frequency in your momentum can easily lead to a slump.

Keep in mind no one sustains the same energy pattern all the time, thus changes in energy and productivity is also a mathematical formula or numbers game that is part of the way energy moves and impacts within the Universe. A contraction leads to the squeezing of atoms which leads to the release of light and magnetism internally.

Another factor is an individual may grow weary and need rest from continued energy output. A slump forces the person to regroup and heal. The recovery time also provides for reflection time. When a person is pushing all the time it is quite possible there is no appreciation or enjoyment because of increased demands that come with success and high achievements. A slump provides reflection time; an opportunity to soul search and make priorities about what is actually important.

Outside pressures can also lead to a slump whether in personal production and/or achievement. Internal pressure from oneself can also lead to a slump. Inevitably doubt and the opinions of others can impact one’s successes and achievements. Doubt is an insidious chiseler of confidence. It eats away the beliefs long before one realizes erosion has washed away that ability to succeed in a storm, or produce under fire, or even upon demand. Negativity at large can “stick” to us and drain our power to weather any storm before the hurricane hits.

If you get attached to success and achievement it is a certainty you will get attached to slumps. Why is that true? One must learn to accept things as natural to be in the flow. When you get attached to something, even to successful outcomes, you magnetize yourself out of the “flow” of energy within the Universe. Detach from the outcome and achieve a state of mind that success is your divine right and you will be more likely to keep on flowing. Egotistical feelings often require more magnetism, thus more force, to keep on producing. Eventually the flow runs out of steam and guess who’s coming to dinner then? Why, it is Mr. or Mrs. Slump.

The practice of saying and feeling gratitude is an instant jolt of lightning out of a slump or a detour around an impending slump. Practice detachment with certainty that you will survive and succeed no matter what.

When I sold real estate I told anyone that listened that I would get my share of sales no matter the market place. I repeatedly and boldly proclaimed if there were only 10 sales a year in contra Costa County I would get at least four of them. I intended it and expected to do so. I had no doubts therefore the marketplace was never a slump for me once I attained the flow and belief system about my divine right.

A huge reason some go into slumps is self sabotage. Their inner or core beliefs are inconsistent with success. There was a time in my life I manifested great success and much money only to lose it all. Finally I realized I was afraid of success. I had a close and personal relationship with Mrs. Slump Time. I was doubtful that I really understood how to flow with rich people. Frankly I was more comfortable with those that had little or nothing. Most of my friends then were sitting on the edge of the chasm with me. One strong wind of bad luck would send us on the way to see the proctologist, except we had no money to pay for one. The alternating cycles of plenty and long periods of slump time were not necessarily market driven.

Somewhere within the cycles of plenty and none, I recognized a pattern of producing outside the box that was exhilarating. Yet inevitably I noticed it was always followed by a huge slump period. After careful introspection I came to the conclusion I worked diligently when I had a game plan or a goal. After each completed goal attainment I wanted to rest on my laurels. Did you guess who always called when I completed a big goal? You guessed that Mrs. Slump Time always knocked on my door. True or True?

You see I realized I needed a series of goals, each in different phases of achievement and in varying degrees or levels of importance. The goal could be so simple as to take a break after seven days of pushing myself to the limit. It could be that I rewarded myself with a trinket, maybe a Chanel Watch, after making thousands in sales. It could be that when I neared completion of a big goal I had another big goal outlined ready to pursue when this one was complete. The point is that a series of goals gave my mind a focus and a purpose. This prevented my mind from floundering and losing momentum of the flow.

Any slump is mental in nature, even if it is a market condition such as a recession. That implies the masses have a group thought about the market conditions. If you want to avoid a slump be detached and grateful for your successes. Love the benefits you gained from your previous failures and slumps. If you can see a benefit in it you can detach from it and let go, let loose, let the Creator deal with the energy pattern.