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Break Out! Five Tips To Get Out Of A Rut
1. Define Success
It’s vital to know what your idea of success is. You need to know what being out of a rut looks like. How will you know when you are successful?
Take pen and paper and make a list under this heading: Success to me is...
List at least 5 options and asterisk the 2 strongest.
2. What Do You Really Want?
Choose one option that means the most to you and decide to do something about it. All change begins with a decision. Make today the day that you break out of your rut by deciding to, admitting what you want and being prepared to do something about it.
Spend at least 30 minutes thinking what this would look like and how you could begin to do something about it. Make a plan.
3. Handle Your Greatest Critic
Your greatest opponent is you. No-one can do as much damage to your self-image and self-confidence as you. And, as soon as you start thinking big, your greatest critic will emerge.
Write down this heading and list at least 10 answers: My most limiting belief about myself is...
You may be able to spot the source of your limiting belief, but the important thing is to stop letting it hold you back. Begin to replace the most destructive beliefs by more productive ones. For example, "I’m not good enough" can become, "I am good enough to do what I want/make my life work/make this happen/make money."
Use the Bach Flower Remedies to uplift your morale. These are wonderful, easily available in a high street chemist and inexpensive. My "get- out- of- a rut" combination is: larch for self-confidence, centaury for self-expression and gentian for enthusiasm. Follow the instructions on the bottle and take for at least a month.
4. Take Yourself Seriously
Only you can decide that your happiness and fulfilment are important. If you’ve been raised to always put others first, you may feel prioritising your own ambitions is selfish.
Grasp that your happiness is your responsibility: no-one can provide it for you.
Grasp also, that you deserve it. Repeat often, "I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be fulfilled." There’s nothing attractive about being a martyr, so carve out time and energy to fuel your desires and dreams. Additionally, a happy, fulfilled person is more fun to be around than a frustrated, unhappy one!
5. Get Support
If you can afford it, hire your own coach. Otherwise, find 3 other dynamic individuals and form your own Success Group.
Meet once a week or fortnightly and give each other 20 minutes of focused listening and feedback to motivate and move you forwards. This sort of camaraderie and support is invaluable, especially if it’s been missing from your life, or you are always the one providing it for others.
Go on. Don’t let yourself down. Go for it!
