The nature of feeling stuck is that you’re in a place you don’t want to be and you’re either not sure where to go or how to get out.
You know you don’t want to stay where you are or keep doing what you’ve been doing, but there’s something you don’t know about how to get where you want to go.
It is more of an emotional experience than rational understanding. That presents a challenge.
When we feel stuck, we often try to get unstuck by evaluating and calculating rational strategies. We think and plan and envision various paths, turning them over in our mind. We assess likelihoods, consequences, and do our best to predict what might go wrong.
The problem is, does any of this ever get you unstuck?
It’s not that getting unstuck involves no thinking, evaluation, or calculation. It’s that we do not solve our emotional problems with rational solutions. Rationality will be involved, but emotions must take the lead.
So one of the keys to not staying stuck is learning to listen to your feelings. Not to be confused with obeying them, but listening to them.
What are they telling you? What feeling are you trying to get away from? What feeling are you trying to get closer to?
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