How to get out of the mid-year rut.

Can you believe it is mid-year already? With 2022 half over, it's time to pause, take a breath, and see if you're on track with your goals.

This is the time that many individuals and businesses alike check their progress on the goals and resolutions that they set for the current year. From a business perspective, this is the logical point to assess where they stand in relation to previous plans. It's also a good time to begin strategic and financial planning, not only for the remainder of this year, but also for the upcoming new year.?

Whilst all this is good progress, there are some who have not quite gotten there, those who haven’t moved, those who made new year’s resolutions so expectantly, but things still haven’t quite come together.?

If this is you, you are probably asking yourself where did I go wrong, where am I going wrong, why am I stuck??

The good news is that, getting unstuck is absolutely simple and we will show you how via a collection of varied personal experiences. Many of us have been stuck at some point or another in our lives, but although getting stuck is part of the human condition, staying there is not.

Action wins the day.

You can make your future anything that you want it to be, except for your past. You have to come to the realisation that you have no control over the past, you cannot wish your life away, you must deal with the reality of your current situation head on, you must deal with the matter at hand.

The only way to get rid of a problem that you are facing is to take action and solve it. If you get an infection the doctor will give you antibiotics. If you get toothache you will make an appointment to see a dentist. When you take no action you only end up making matters worse. Action wins the day. It always has, and it always will.

“Think about this - SURELY you can never understand the power of water unless its moving.”?

Don't get stuck getting ready to be ready?

The choices you make create the life you live. Don't fritter away your power of choice. In the midst of stuck, everything feels complicated, if it felt simple, you wouldn't be stuck! Don't get stuck getting ready to be ready. Just get going.

Dr Seuss is a childhood (even Adulthood) favourite of many and he is someone we find can get out of any situation just by using words… clever strategy right?! A favourite being:

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

So using these words as a foundation here are some resolutions to getting unstuck

1. Refrain from wallowing in self-pity.?When you wallow you begin to feel like a victim, its actually easy to get sort of addicted to the feeling of being the victim, by then it makes it even harder to get out of your situation.?

2. Reflect on why and how you got stuck.Briefly take a few minutes to analyse what is holding you in this frustrating pattern. What decisions did you make or what circumstances got you in this unpleasant place. Then stop repeating this story.?

3. Refocus your attention on where you want to be.Change your perspective, look at your issue from different vantage point. Paint a picture of what a new more positive situation would look like and the freedom and joy this would bring.?

4. Resolve to let go of whatever is keeping you stuck.Determine to find the self-limiting beliefs that are holding you in this stuck place and challenge their validity by starting to adopt more empowering beliefs.?

5. Reprioritise your actions and time.Write down how you will do things differently and act on this.?

6. Regain the confidence to move forward.Take these important steps again and again until you get to a place where you start feeling less boxed in.?

Your reason for being

To keep moving forward, you need to shift your focus off the past and onto your future. By moving forward in life you start making plans and setting goals again. You not only start dreaming again, but fighting to make those dreams come true. You can call it finding your path, finding meaning, finding your why, as Simon Sinek would say.

No matter what it is you are struggling with right now, know that there is always a new chapter and a new season ready-made just for you!

Go forth and your confidence will grow as you proceed – Happy New Month!

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Disclaimer: This a motivational piece written from the perspective of various personal experiences from our resident writer and are in no way professional advice.?If you are unable to do this on your own, get a good coach to help you. You can also utilise your internal employee wellness programme to find an expert who can help you understand what beliefs and values are getting in the way of your being unstuck for good.?Take action today if you are serious about getting yourself unstuck. There is an old saying, "it's never the wrong time to do the right thing."