Slumpty Dumpty

Pondering life and overthinking can sometimes keep us from moving forward. Who hasn't been in a slump, a rut, and even a low lying trench at some point in their career or life? Being in the slump can feel like a prison sentence with never ending recycled feelings of sadness, doubt, non-confidence and misdirection. We can't see the forest for the trees! The reality is, the entire time we are facing our own great fall or lack of direction, we hold the keys that unlocks the door to personal and professional freedom. A loss for 'life appetite' may be as simple as, you are in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing, or accepting the wrong information from the wrong people. Lacking the knowledge and will to change your current state of being and what isn't working for you, is the issue for staying stuck.

Take for example you wake up each morning and begin the same exact messaging in your brain about something that has been eating at you for days, months years. What do you do about those messages? For many, playing them over and over and over is comforting and familiar, so better to listen to the same messages versus create a new story that will serve the life you really truly want. Maybe you don't know what the life you really want or know what it can be. Maybe, you haven't even considered that you deserve an amazing life of everything you can imagine. The dreams we have hidden without our psyche are waiting for the plan to achieve them. Without the plan, desire, knowledge and support to get those dreams to become a reality, we continue to allow the current life infrastructure including our current messaging, to run on auto pilot. And when we are in a slump emotionally or physically, we allow and accept someone else (our auto system) to operate and control our outcome. Allowing our old messaging to take over our life is an out of body experience until, we realize, OMG, why would I ever let the destructive old and worn out messages control and run my life! I understand, because I've been there - we've all been there and some of you, are there right now.

Simple steps to take your TRUE SELF out of the slump you are in right now.

1. Get naked - (Metaphorically or For Reals) Get naked, stand in front of a mirror, look at every side of your body, and ask yourself, am I living the life I want? Is this the person I want to be? Am I (insert your name) completely and authentically living the life I was destined to have and be? Not only is the physical-ness of this action an eye opener, but, the vulnerability of looking at yourself opens up our brain to more possibilities. It's a form of shock that gets you thinking in a new direction and accepting or realizing limitations or areas of work.
2. Write - Write out your personal and professional dreams on paper. Currently, mine are to have 25 speaking engagements on the books at all times, exercise daily in the out of doors, maintain my ideal weight, and write at least 1000 words a day. Broader goals for me are things to do with my living arrangements and relationships. Every day I know what they are, but I find when I listen to my old messaging in my brain, I cannot get out of a slump or rut. We all face this... we just don't know how to overcome it.
3. Believe - Believe without a doubt how you have EVERYTHING you need to make your dreams come to fruition. No matter the size of the dream, you have the power to make it happen. There isn't a dream size scale to follow, dreams are personal and individual that rely on YOU to make them come true. How do you find that belief? You take steps every day in the direction of your dream. Each day those steps will become easier and then, the momentum of the energy you have created will carry you thru to the next day and goal. Try it... and repeat it the next day.
4. Goal Setting - Goal setting isn't meant to be arduous or regimented. We are humans we need goals; plain and simple or the day will just be given to the 'Wasted Day Gods'. When we let a day slip bye from achieving our dreams we give power to our outdated and hurtful self messaging and we waste another day. Not the plan we have for ourselves is it?
5. Support - Get the support you need to climb the hills that you'll face as you manifest your dreams. Write it out on paper, what kind of support will I need to reach this goal or that goal. Get the help now to make your dreams come true! What does the help look like?

You may or may not get every single dream on your list to come true. But when you are focusing on what it is that you truly want and desire to make happen, you no longer are listening to or looking backwards at what didn't happen or what is wrong currently. The mindset that keeps you in a slump can't exist in a mindset that is developing a plan for achievement. The two cannot, coexist. You choose the path and the outcome. 2022 is a year of achievement and positive outcomes. The controls are in your hands for EVERYTHING.

Anne Spieker is available to speak to your audience or for individual coaching sessions. Reach out to Anne today if you want tomorrow to look and be different than today!