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Calvin Coulter

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My Recent Rut…

I've been in a rut recently, I've kinda lost my drive, my desire for achieving my goal.

And I really have been in a rut.

And honestly, I fell off.

And then this post, I just want to say my lesson that I learned from this and you could try it as well.

So yeah, it began at the end of last month. You see, last month in May.

I honestly, I put in all my effort and my focus, to my business goal of course because you know that's very, very, very important to me.

And I'll be honest, I got really bad results that month and it just was incredibly demotivating to work so hard and to get basically nothing for it.

Although I did get a small win but it was, it was not enough to sustain myself.

And nowhere near compared to previous months of the same effort and that really just kind of, that honestly triggered the rut because I was just so demotivated from that and it really just pushed me off and then at the start of June I just realised you know what I'm going to have to get a part time job again or something because I'm totally broke I can't even pay for my gym membership or anything.

And I was honestly so embarrassed with that, like how am I working 10 plus hours a day and yet I can't even buy a simple gym membership that anyone in a normal part-time job or anything could afford and that really hurt me a lot.

And I also couldn't pay my assistant which I had for a long time.

Because I didn't have enough money and that hurt me even more and all my clients their like timeline with me was up that meant I had only 1 client left with me at the start of June and it was very difficult and I just mentally I couldn't face doing the work working so hard and and basically not getting anything for it.

I just kind of lost my drive and lost my discipline and honestly June this has probably been the worst month I've ever had in terms of productivity since about 2023 honestly and yeah, but at the same time though I was extremely overworked and burnt out and I was just tired of it all and I don't know.

Guess what I've learned from this is to just

Take a break if I need it.

Now, I used to struggle with this site whenever I first got on the path of making a business and improving my life and all that I used to think oh you know time off that's that's not good we should never have time off we should just be totally disciplined 24/7 and all that but truthfully that's not a good life at all and you do need some time off every now and then but of course don't overdo it as well and that's what I will say like before that point my intuition was telling me you know what maybe let's take some time off let's maybe go on a holiday with friends or something I honestly should have done that before I got to my breaking point I should have had a little bit more time to relax in may because in may I just overworked myself completely and i got really crap results and that was just the downfall and yeah.

2. Have my work run without me.

I wish now for June you know like I have this tracker thing that shows me shows me how many days I worked and it was only about eight days and I wish on my days off I at least got my system because you see I have an assistant that like falls in for me usually but I couldn't pay but that would have been so much better because that meant that would have meant my business would still be performing I would have felt so much less guilty in my break and I could actually really enjoy it while making results still in business and that's what I would say that's particularly for you know people getting ruts with their business, which I'm sure is a lot of people, because business can really cause these ruts.

3. Appreciate discipline more.

You see i'll be honest for the past couple years since i've got on this journey actually it's been about three years now, I kind of undervalued discipline.

I was like oh discipline's kind of cool and all that and yeah, I never had much appreciation for it because i'll be honest, I never had a proper rut.

Still, It's made me appreciate discipline a lot more, it's made me appreciate that doing the work and being productive is actually more fun than just chasing dopamine and not doing anything at all and it's made me appreciate it more.

It's made me want to be disciplined more and to do the hard work even when I don't feel like it and it's showed me that that's what it's about.

Those are my 3 big lessons from this.

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