Do you ever feel like you’re just spinning your wheels in your business?

Pumping out new things again and again and again but nothing seems to work?

Or, you might feel like you’re swamped with your current practice and not saying no is costing you your work/life balance.

Looking at the third option, of having no work/life balance, that is totally me.

In fact, I’m in one of those funks right now.  I wouldn’t necessarily call it a funk perhaps… maybe it’s just more of a stopping period.  Generally, I hibernate and close down new operations for the month of December.  We still do our work for our current clients but for new business, we just don’t solicit it.  Instead, we create a waiting list of people who really want to work with us and are willing to wait.

I also launch new websites often on the 1st of January.  A new unveiling of sorts.  This year, I don’t have any big plans for a new site but I am streamlining many of our operations so that I don’t have to focus my attention in too many places.  I’ll be looking at our current projects to evaluate and see where I’m at and what will stay for 2010 and what needs to go.

This is more of an introspective post but I wanted to share where I’m at to also learn where you’re at.

Do you ever put yourself on lockdown mode?  What do you find happens when you do?