Whatever Slump You’re In, Pull Yourself Out Of It

Read this and tug hard.

I can’t exactly tell you when everything went wrong.

I can’t exactly tell you when I got bad at the things I’ve always been good at or when exactly I stopped having any shred of motivation to do anything.

Maybe I partied too much. Maybe my getaway vacation was too relaxing.

Maybe I realized that I don’t want to do anything for anyone unless I feel like it, including myself.

Maybe life is just hard, and ya gotta roll with the motions.

Or… maybe these are all shitty excuses to justify the comfort I’m ashamed of having.

Why? Why is it bad to feel comfortable?

Well… it’s not. My problem is I’ve been comfortable for too long.

I’ve been in a slump for too long.

I’ve forgotten everything I preach: the crux of it all being that nothing comes to you from doing nothing.

Life is easy, work isn’t.

I’ve lost all sorts of motivation for things I still care about deeply.

I’ve lost all the motivation so much that I have seriously come to believe that motivation actually matters.

Boy, haven’t I been delusional?

Maybe that’s why I’m in a slump: somehow I’ve come to care too much about needing the motivation to do something.

I’ve had such a relaxing time that I enjoy it too much. The motivation will never come, and I will remain in this slump.

I will remain in this slump until I figure out that action, not motivation, is what will get me back to where I was.

I’ve failed to recognize that the stage I’m currently in is that exact pathway in life I always preach to avoid: stagnation.

It’s even more. It’s scarcity-thinking, it’s jealousy, it’s delusion, it’s lack of clarity, it’s dreaming small, it’s regret, it’s thinking that I’m going to live forever.

I probably talk about regret and mortality more than anything else in my posts, and yet somehow they’ve become the two things I’ve ignored the most.

It should be obvious that the only way you can pull yourself out of a slump is to pull yourself out of it.

No one can do that for you. Somehow I’ve acted like that may be possible.

Just think for a second: how are you going to out of your funk? How?

Well, what were you doing before?

Do you remember? Can you remember how life was before?

Great, now forget about it. Why?

Because clearly how your life was before is what led you to this slump in the first place.

It’s time to pivot. The old way doesn’t work anymore. It has run its course.

It’s time to make a drastic, big change.

It’s time to dream bigger, make bigger plans.

It’s likely that whatever plan you make won’t happen, so why waste the gamble on a small one?

Go big or go slump.

To be mature is to not be scared of those next stages in life.

Pull yourself out of your slump and tug fucking hard.

Jostle your mind back into the reality that this moment in life you keep doing nothing about will haunt you in your final days.

Avoid the regret of having not tried and do something about your situation now.

Stop thinking what you're doing is enough. We both know it is not.

I’m talking to you, but I’m talking to myself as well.

If it seems like I’m all over the place or like the message is confusing, it’s because that’s all probably true.

I can’t even find clarity in my head right now, and yet, as I sit here and type these words, suddenly it’s all coming back to me.

Suddenly, I can see the forest through the trees.

Suddenly I’ve found the answers I haven’t been looking for. And that was the problem: I never looked.

I haven’t done shit to get out of my situation until now.

Maybe your slump is happening because somewhere along the line something caused you to stop giving a shit about what you were doing for just a split second, and that Resistance — a force of fear, scarcity, contentment, lack of clarity, regret, delusion — , the resistance we know all too well, has a knack for being able to stretch split-seconds into full ones.

That Resistance will turn seconds to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to months, months to years.

Suddenly, your life is gone, vanished.

Don’t let this Resistance win.

Realize you have more control than you think, and that can either be a great thing or a bad thing.

If we could only do better at realizing the power we have, we would do things a lot differently.

We would take more risks, more chances.

We would stop being so damn comfortable.

We would find comfort in the growth and struggle.

We would feel good about the amazing feats we accomplish.

And we wouldn’t stop there.

Don’t dwell on what got you here in your slump like I’ve been doing.

Dwelling on the cause only keeps you in the effect.

Instead, move.

Take action, look forward, and think about how you are going to cause a better future, out of this slump, into effect.

Are you ready?

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