Hustle Never Slumps

In baseball when a player goes through some negative turbulence during the season it's called a slump. When their on base percentage goes down rather than up, when the batting average goes dips, and when they start making uncommon errors they describe their issue with one word. It's a slump. They point to all sorts of problems with this or that, but really their issue isn't an assortment of problems. Most of the time their issue or issues orbit around one big problem. The reality is somewhere along the line they've lost their hustle. 

Leadership is the same. It doesn't matter what they use as an excuse. The root of the issue is when a leader loses his/her hustle they enter a slump. 

A slump is nothing more than a loss of momentum and a slump doesn't happen in an instance. Generally it happens over a period of time when we as leaders begin to let go of the grit and desire it took to get us where we are. We get bored. We get complacent. The small things, the attention to the little details, matter less and "other" things that really don't matter begin to matter more. 

Over time our hustle begins to fade and we end up in a slump and usually we have no idea how we've gotten here. Let me offer a diagnosis. You're probably in a slump because you've lost your hustle. 

You want to know how to never experience a slump, a loss in momentum. NEVER quit hustling. 

Here's a timeless truth that you need to write down somewhere so that you'll never forget it. 

Hustle never slumps.