Darkest Before Dawn

If you’re in business for yourself and you’ve ever experienced a difficult time, you’re not alone.

You may have heard the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn.” Or “The break down always happens before the break through.”

These phrases are intended to offer comfort in difficult times. So that you know that you’re not alone, others before you have experienced the dark times and the break downs.

In other words, don’t give up during hard times because things are often hardest right before they get better.

Being aware of the signs of a breakdown will help you to embrace the break downs so that you can break through faster.

We’ve all had times in our lives when we were pushing through and then something broke down.

Being fired, getting sick, having an accident, all are break downs.

Some break downs are not as big, such as just being fatigued or frustrated, stumbling, but not falling.

They are still break downs, no matter how big or how small.

Here are the signs to look for:

You’ll experience the emotions of boredom, tiredness, fatigue, frustration, and anger just before a breakthrough.

Here’s what is really happening. These are all signs that you are about to have a breakthrough.

It’s a celebration!

Pay attention to your emotions and celebrate when you experience them because you know you’re about to have a breakthrough.

Your emotions are indicators of what your unconscious mind is trying to get your conscious mind to understand.

Your unconscious mind does not have language to communicate, it uses emotions, feelings, and symbols.

This is why you must pay attention to your emotions. When you experience the negative emotions of boredom, fatigue, frustration, and anger, then you’ll know that something big is about to change for you.

Why is the breakdown happening?

The breakdown is happening because you need to pay attention to what your unconscious mind needs you to know. When you don’t listen to your unconscious mind, you’ll experience an accident or an illness.

I’ve experienced it myself. Right before I blew up my business by sabotaging relationships with business partners and clients, I was overwhelmed with fatigue, frustration, and anger.

I just kept going and not paying attention to what my body and my emotions were screaming at me.

That’s when I got snippy and short tempered with my referral partners. Then I forgot to give credit to a sponsor at an event. Then I was impatient with my clients (not good!!).

As a result, my colleagues didn’t want to do business with me anymore, the referrals stopped coming and three clients fired me in a few days.

At the time I played the victim really well and couldn’t see how I had multiple warnings ahead of time. I thought that everyone was being mean to me.

I can see now, with the clarity of hindsight, that it wasn’t them. It was my behaviour, my actions and my thoughtlessness that caused my business to implode.

I’ve heard Oprah talk about this. She talks about the whisper of intuition happening first, then if that is ignored, it becomes a pebble against the window. If you ignore that, then it’s a brick through the window.

I’ll add that if you ignore all of these signs, then the house falls on you like in the Wizard of Oz and someone takes your shoes.

Being aware of the symptoms of a breakdown will enable you to be aware of your role in what’s happening so that you can take action and breakthrough faster.

The breakdown is something to celebrate. Its purpose is to get you off the path that you’re currently on. It’s trying to wake you up and take away what isn’t working for you so that you can discover what path you’re meant to be travelling. Your role is to pay attention and ride the waves.

Change in the form of a breakthrough is happening.

Pay attention to the signs. Watch for the clues, listen to the whispers, and feel your emotions.

This is your warning to stop and assess. What’s working? What’s not working?

If you’re seeking to level up your business, you can expect that things will change.

Up levelling and improving yourself and your business takes focus and attention.

You’ll find it much easier now that you know specifically what are the indicators that you’re heading towards a breakthrough.

Yes, it’s always darkest before the dawn.

Here is your guiding light.