The Difference Between a Slow Month and a Stopping Point

Diagnose a Dip, Cul-de-Sac, or Cliff Before You Decide

A six-step protocol for deciding whether to push through or walk away

When results go quiet, it's tempting to let whichever emotion is loudest that week make the call. This guide gives you a way to label the terrain — a Dip (hard but real reward ahead), a Cul-de-Sac (dead flat, no amount of effort is moving it), or a Cliff (quietly getting worse) — so the decision to push through or walk away gets made on evidence instead of mood.