On other hand, sometimes you're pretty discouraged. "How am I ever going to finish that project? How can I possibly do all of things that I need to do in order to get to where I want to be?"

Don't you just HATE feeling like THAT? It's hard to move a single piece of paper from one place on your desk to other. The easiest things look impossible to do. You are carrying a large stone around your neck and everything is an effort.

I think that most people are like that; highs and lows, ups and downs. Even most productive people hit a brick wall once in a while and wonder to themselves, "What was I thinking when I took on this project??"

Naturally there can be a zillion reasons why you are down: outside pressures, just lost a big customer or big deal, fight with a family member, illness or accident, etc. What separates men from boys, however, is how you deal with it. Sometimes you can help yourself when you're down by asking yourself one simple question: "What time is it?"

WHAT??

Remember it is much easier to nip something in bud than to deal with stress after it flowers into physical symptoms or a bad mood. If you get into a funk sometimes it can last for days and it's often hard to break free of it. When you can "catch" negative moment beginning you have a great shot at stopping it from taking you down. I've found these helpful for myself as well as my clients:

Breaking out of moods:

1) If you feel a certain "mood" beginning (i.e. depression, anger, discouragement) try to do something physical such as go running, swim, or even clean. It's good to do something that will tune up your nervous and glandular system. We need to break incarnations that set into our bodies. It is similar to stopping smoking after one cigarette rather than 20 years of smoking. Sometimes if you have a shoe and it is worn out on one side you'll see that if you put your foot in it, it leans in that direction. The mind follows grooves it previously was tracing out. We have power to "change channel" and watch a different movie.