Tough Times Never Last

Life is a series of peaks and valleys. And sometimes the valleys feel mighty low. They pale in comparison to our best moments.

It is easy to begin feeling low if we enter a slump. If you're used to making a certain income, then suddenly sales are slow - the first thing we reach for are the reasons why this is so.

It's tax time. It's the economy. It's the immigrants. It's the price of gas.

And so on.

Yet, all of the above are NOT the reason for a slump because there are others going through the same conditions who are producing great results.

Now, there are and will always be 'contributing factors' to a slump - but the biggest factors for the slump are as follows:

a. Unwillingness to change, experiment, try new ways of doing the same thing - but get better results

b. Too much time telling "your story" of why things aren't going well instead of getting off your rumpus and doing something to shake things up.

If you start paying attention, you'll be amazed at how much time and energy people invest in telling their negative 'woe is me' story.

During the same amount of time the person spends telling and retelling his story - he could be doing something to make things better - but that would mean that the story is no longer true - so it's better to keep on talking.

But it's not.

When times are tough, when you're in a slump - you break out of it by imagining the circumstances you want - then DOING whatever it takes to create those circumstances.

The only talking you do during this time is positive self-suggestion. You can start with a phrase like, "Tough times never last - tough people do - and I'm tough as nails."

Or you can say to yourself, "I feel like I'm in a rut right now - but I CAN do something about it. And I'm GOING to do something about it. I am bigger than this problem and I'm rising above it."

Repeat these thoughts to yourself with enthusiasm - and watch how things start to open up for you.