Proof That Biorhythms Affect Your Income

Are you old enough to remember biorhythms? 

Years ago, biorhythms were the rage. 

Are you at your peak or are you bottoming out? 

Your physical cycle lasts 23 days. Your emotional cycle is 28 days and your emotional cycle is 33 days. The cycles continue up and down like clockwork, 

That’s way too many up and down cycles for me to keep track of. 

When you think about it, life is all about cycles. 

• Time (Is there still 24 hours in a day?) 
• Sunrise and sunset 
• Moon phases 
• Tides 
• Seasons 

As far as I know, the sun still rises in the east and sets in the west every day. I bet I can find people on Facebook in a heated debate about this but for now let’s just assume this is still true. 

Businesses and even industries go through cycles that seem to be shorter and shorter. 

My career in the computer industry started in the ‘80s and we would release new product lines every 5-7 years. From concept to product release took years. Today, products are created in a few months because of advanced systems and processes. 

Entire industries came and went in the late ’90s during the internet boom. Our access to the internet was through very slow dial-up modems. The internet was text-based because graphics and video were too much for our 9.6k modems. 

We used to receive a CD in the mail from AOL at least one per week. Best drink coasters ever! 

Today, our computers come equipped with high-speed network connections and no CD or DVD player because everything is downloaded from the internet. The cycle is complete for those products. 

I’m reading an interesting book, Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future by Roy H. Williams. 

If you aren’t familiar with Roy, he’s an absolute genius who thinks on a different level than us. Visit the Wizard Academy in Austin to see one of Roy’s dreams. 

In his book, Pendulum, Roy’s research reveals how generations go through 40-year cycles of pendulum swings from ME to WE and back. 

The cycle of 2003-2023 is an upswing period is from ME to WE. When you are at the bottom of the pendulum swing, is a period of unbalance. 

Specifically, the period 2013-2023 is considered "we’re about to take a good thing too far" which is exactly what we’re experiencing now. 

A few months ago, we were "fat, dumb and happy" with the economy booming and the lowest unemployment rate in decades. After the Great Recession in 2008-2009, the economy steadily grew, almost straight up. 

We got lazy and assumed this is the way things will be forever. 

Until the pandemic knocked all of us around the world to our knees. 

It was like we took things too far, just like we did in the late ‘90s with the first internet boom then the Great Recession in the late ‘00s. 

As Alan Greenspan said when the stock market was booming in the late ’90s, "We’re experiencing irrational exuberance with the stock market at record highs based on internet companies who are not making a profit". 

The dot com bubble burst shortly after his speech. 

Nothing is forever. The pendulum will swing back and forth. 

If you’re in a down cycle, things will eventually turn to an up-cycle. If you’re in an up-cycle, eventually you will experience a down-cycle. You can try to minimize the effects of the down-cycle, but you will always experience pendulum swings. 

Roy goes very deep in his book and it’s worth reading. 

About the Author

Ted Prodromou is the best-selling author of Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business and Ultimate Guide to Twitter for Business. Ted is the founder of Search Marketing Simplified, a full-service social media marketing agency. Learn more about Ted at www.YourLinkedInCoach.com