10 Questions For When You’re Stuck

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Being stuck serves a spiritual purpose. It is fertile ground for transformation to occur. It tells you that a change is needed. ~ 7 Ways to get unstuck, HuffPost Healthy Living

No one has to tell you. You know when you’re stuck. You know how it affects you; you feel alone and sad and hopeless.

But being stuck isn’t the worst place to be. Think of it as a wakeup call. And getting the right answers often means asking the right questions.

Here are 10 questions I found on Leadership Freak that help me when I’m stuck

1. What do you want?
2. What does success look like?
3. What have you tried that didn’t work?
4. What should you stop doing?
5. What could you try?
6. Which options generate energy?
7. How would you describe the behavior?
8. When will you try it?
9. What will you not have done, if you fail?
10. How will you assess progress?

These questions function well as a screening exercise for me – professionally and personally. I particularly like question 6.

It immediately shines a light on any bullshit answers; in effect, saving me tons of time.

~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~

How might these questions help you? How do you get unstuck?

Left foot in isn’t good enough

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“Wisdom from the Hokey Pokey. Put your whole self in” ~ a coffee shop sign

I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s there, at the tip of my tongue, or stuck in my throat like a lodged chip that I can’t spit out or swallow.

Something is off. Not off enough to be SCREAMING. Because then I would know what it is.

But it’s off. It’s unaligned.

Hokey Pokey (Photo credit: jkarsh)

Somehow I’ve betrayed myself or talked myself into believing or…

It nags at me, it pokes and jabs, trying to get my attention.

I can’t see it…

…or I don’t want to see it.

I can’t put my finger on it.

But it’s there, buried in my head

like a glimpse of a dream, my brain struggles to recount the details, my heart longs to find it again.

What have I lost – carelessly squandered?

It’s hard to find the answer when the question isn’t even clear.

I need to find a way

So I can live fully in the moment and

engage, relate and belong

I need to put my whole self in again.

Do you have your whole self in?