Ruts seem to come more often than the 1st of the month and as soon as you hit one your morale takes a running nose dive. Trust me, I’ve been there. That probably doesn’t give you much comfort as most, if not all, of us have been there. We get down on ourselves and start to question everything from our abilities to the direction we’re headed and man does that suck. I’m no head doctor but I’ll tell you what works best for me when I just feel like sulking: grind.

Undo the non-productive…

Sitting on your a** in the computer room staring at your knees for hours won’t get you out of that funk. Neither will shoveling mountains of ice cream or swilling liters of beer. Even if you end up not doing anything particularly helpful to your mission, just don’t do these things.

Plan…

I usually do my War Room meeting on Sundays but anytime I get depressed I crack open my notebook and look at what needs to be done and do something from it. By forcing yourself into the thick of things, your mind becomes distracted and that funky fog gets lifted; especially when you’re seeing results from your work. Should I not even do anything from it, the mere act of looking at it makes me want to connect the dots.

Do the opposite of erase; create…

This is me all the way. When I get down, the first thing I do is become overly critical of my work. I will erase blog posts (and the occasional blog itself), erase music files I’ve created (which number in the thousands from years of control-less moody tantrums) and generally be an ass to everyone I know. That was the reason my phone didn’t ring on the weekends for a while. (I’m better now…) Instead of hitting the delete button now I force myself to use that same medium to make something new even if I don’t save it afterwards.

Read up on your favorite hustler…

Sometimes all I can do is jump on You tube and watch old clips of the greats spitting game. Dame Dash is one I watch constantly trying to rinse a couple more drops of game from even though I’ve seen it lots of times before. You’d be surprised at just how immersing do this can be and before you know it that anger gets replaced with inspiration.

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By: Charles The CEO
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