You feel like you’re stuck in a rut. How can you break out of it and achieve your goals?

Many people who find themselves feeling stuck in a rut find it hard to identify what is in the way. One approach is to do some free-writing. Set a timer for 5 minutes and write without stopping — no punctuation, just let everything come onto the page, and see what shows up. You may want to repeat this process on different days and see what shows up. Another approach is using a tool I developed (that is in my book), to help you mine deep intuitive information, that can be revelatory. With the insights you glean, you can start addressing them. Having help to do that, with someone skilled to guide you, can make moving through that process smoother and easier.

There are two different categories of “rut”. Distinct, but not mutually exclusive. 1) The way you are currently prioritizing your time and attention is NOT directionally correct. 2) You are directing your time and attention appropriately. It just feels so unfair that you should have to do [insert the directionally correct activities you are busy resenting]. Be prepared to laundry list excuses. Rational defenses for why it would be wrong to do anything to change. Once you get beyond telling yourself why your rut is amazing, you'll discover defining the problem honestly feels pretty good. Why? Because you have stopped forcing yourself to believe what you know to be false. Having defined the real problem, you can start to solution.

You may find yourself stuck in a rut due to your own beliefs. My personal experience on people I know being stuck in a rut is due to the lack of adopting to change. If a person easily adopts to change, changing their life pattern would be really easy. What goes with adopting to change is the ability to take a risk where we as humans enables to do something different and go for a change. We as humans need to adopt and take risks and manage to change our lifestyle and take calculated risks so that it will help us to achieve our goals by breaking the rut.

Reconnecting with your purpose can be very powerful! Remind yourself what you are good at, what you have achieved, and what brings you joy - these can become your compass of sorts as to how you want to spend your time - this can influence your career choices, work-life balance, boundaries, approach to decision making or even how you choose to recharge.

Taking some time to think and reconnect your strengths along with your values and asking yourself the question on whether you are taking the maximum use out of your strengths and values would help you to analyse about where you are heading with yourself. As an individual you need to motivate yourself and direct yourself and align yourself with a proper mission and vision after analysing your strengths and the values to take the maximum out of you.

If you don't like the situtation that you're currently in? Well, at some point you made decisions consciously or sub consisously that led to that point in life. At the end of the day, you only have yourself to hold responsible. To get to a new destination you must travel on new roads. You feel stuck? For personal and or professional challenges... go for a long walk, disconnect from technology, call an old friend. Be with your feelings even if they're uncomfortable. Usually it will show you the path that's best for you albeit not always the one that you were truly wanting and or not as easy as expected. Then it's all about the disciplined small actions that will add up to big change and get you going again!

A productive energy booster for an individual in my point of view would be when you set a target for yourself to achieve or learn something that you have never attempted or learnt. This could be done through a collaborative help of your friends and family who is good at this. Learning something new to pursue something you had no idea of through your friends or family would be a great practice as this blends you with your loved ones a routine while learning something new.

In my experience everyone falls into that “rut”, and there are many reasons for it. Maybe you expected results too quickly. It could be that you’re having a difficult time personally or professionally. When you’re stuck in a rut don’t rely on motivation to pull you out: instead, think about how far you’ve come in your journey and reprioritize a bit. The key is to just do something, anything, for even the smallest thing completed is a step forward, and no step forward is ever wasted. Make sure that your self talk is in line, and be kind to yourself in the process. It’s ok to rest, it’s not ok to give up.

Para sair da rotina e alcan?ar seus objetivos: 1. Reavalie e atualize seus objetivos. 2. Estabele?a metas específicas e alcan?áveis. 3. Experimente novas atividades para estimular sua motiva??o. 4. Crie um plano de a??o detalhado. 5. Busque inspira??o em modelos e mentores. 6. Mantenha-se flexível e aberto a ajustes de plano.