# 041 - Had a Bad Lockdown? Here's How to end it Well

What is a slump and why do we need to get through it? A slump is a general malaise.  A feeling of being down in the dumps.  Unable to shake off a feeling of lethargy.  Lack of energy.  “Valley time” as it can sometimes be called.  The valley is the look of the graph if you were tracking say, your energy, a fall in sales calls made, a drop in effort.  You might normally be trundling along at an energy level of 7 out of 10 but now it’s 2 or 3 on the same scale…yet you know that sooner or later you’ll get back up to 7 or even higher. You might nomally make 10 calls a day now you’re making none! You may send 20 emails and now it’s 3 or 4…and those are the ones you want to send.  The ones you don’t want to send or the people you don’t want to contact…well, those unsent emails or unmade calls are piling up in your head and adding to the burden. You are failing to move forward.  You are static.  Not in motion. That reminds me of something you all ought to be reminded about.  The Rules of Motion. Sir Isaac Newton the great mathematician and physicist  - who was born about 12 miles away from where I’m recording this  at Woolsthorpe, Colsterworth a few miles south of the town of Grantham in Lincolnshire, Middle England - was famous for his 3 laws: Newton's Three Laws of Motion Newton's three laws of motion may be stated as follows: Every object in a state of uniform motion will remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it. Force equals mass times acceleration [  ]. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Another way to describe the first law is: An object at rest, remains at rest unless something acts on it. Another quote popped into my head:  If you want something done, give it to a busy person. In other words, when you’re in a slump…or at rest…you need some external force or action to get you going.  Busy people don’t need this force as they are already in motion. This is the motivation you need, this is the kick-start, the prod. Get things done now and your memory of the lockdown in the years to come, will be a good one.