Losing streaks end. They don’t end by themselves.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Two true things sit side by side here. A bad run is temporary, which is a genuine comfort, and it is temporary because somebody changed something rather than because time passed over it. Waiting for a streak to break on its own keeps you in it longer, since nothing about the next game differs from the last unless you made it differ.

Change one thing this week instead of everything: a single part of the routine, the first ten minutes, who you ask for help. Keep the change long enough to see whether it did anything. Hope is fine as long as something concrete is moving underneath it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would you have to do to end your current slump?

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