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What To Do When You Feel “Stuck”

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    What To Do When You Feel “Stuck”

    By Anthony Meindl | Empowering You, Fear and Failure, Right here, Right NOW | 0 comment | 28 December, 2015 | 0

    What to do When You Feel “Stuck” in Life

    I’m stuck.

    No you’re not.

    You don’t understand. I’m really stuck.

    What makes it seem like you’re stuck is your insistence that you are.

    It’s true we travel through different phases in life ”“ some that seem to last a very

    long time, and others that fly by ”“ but in actuality, they all end up being relative and

    we never truly are in a perpetual state of stuck as we proclaim.

    What keeps us stuck is our story about being stuck.

    And boy, do we have some great stories that keep our feet firmly planted in place. It

    never happens for me. I had a terrible childhood. I always get shafted. I never get a

    break. I can’t find a partner. Those are stories. Indeed they may have happened and

    they were real. But the fact that you keep relying on that narrative to keep you

    where you are is what keeps you stuck. And invested in the stuck.

    Change the story; change your stuck-i-ness.

    The last I looked, we were bipedal creatures. We have two feet. If we literally were

    stuck we could attempt to move. Just take a step. Walk away. Leave. Get up. Go.

    Depart. At the very least, we can roll, crawl, stagger, slide, inch our way out of

    something we’ve outgrown and into something new.

    Un-stuck yourself.

    Use the friend litmus test to see how un-stuck you really are. When we see someone

    we love who claims to be stuck, we don’t really see them that way. Use that prism to

    see yourself.

    I have a friend who says he wants to work out more and go to the gym but has “no

    time”. To me, it’s a no-brainer. But every idea I offered got shot down. I gave up. He’s

    stuck. Not because he can’t do something about it, but because he really doesn’t

    want to change his stuck-i-ness. To do that means having to really make changes in

    his life.

    I can’t go to the gym = Stuck.

    Hire a trainer. Get up 15 minutes earlier. Go for a run instead of breakfast. Eat

    breakfast at work. Work out on your lunch break. Ride your bike to your job. Get an

    accountability partner. Go to the gym right after work. Ask if your work has a gym

    partnership = Unstuck.

    There are resources, insights, possibilities, assistance and solutions to every single

    story we tell ourselves that keeps us stuck.

    Ouch. I’ll say it again. There is a solution to every stuck. You just have to want the

    solution more than you desire the stuck.

    Our pal, Bruce Lee said it better.

    “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will

    spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only

    plateaus and you must not stay there ”“ you must go beyond them.”

    Unstuck.

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