Todd PolkeInvestment Strategist l Wealth Coach l Speaker, Todd Polke · Investment Strategist l Helping Investors and Business Owners grow their Wealth Faster

The little periods of consolidation can either make or break your next #gains. #shorts #australia

9 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this short motivational talk, the speaker outlines a recurring cycle of "up" and "lull" phases that people experience in personal development and investment portfolios. He warns that many lose momentum during the lull because impatience and disillusionment lead them to abandon effort. When a lull follows a period of large, high‑impact actions, the smaller, seemingly less important tasks are often neglected. The speaker emphasizes that these quiet consolidation periods are critical: the quality of the small, consistent actions taken then determines whether the next up‑cycle will accelerate or falter. Maintaining patience, staying engaged, and focusing on incremental work during lulls sets the stage for a stronger, faster rebound in the subsequent growth phase.

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In your journey, it's just going to be periods of up, lull, up, lull, up, lull. And it's in these lulls where a lot of people lose the game. It's because they do get impatient, they get disillusioned, and they focus on doing, oh, this shit doesn't work, and so they don't do anything. So sometimes in our game and in our portfolio, we come into these lull periods in our portfolio. Where we can't go and do the big rock, especially after we've done a whole lot of big stuff and we're used to doing a whole lot of big stuff, then the little stuff seems less important. And that's the time where it's lost. But it's in those little periods of consolidation where your next big period of gain is going to be made or broken. Does that make sense? It's the time where you can accelerate out of the blocks at a faster level.