Stuck in your life?

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It feels frustrated, doesn’t it? Yet, what else can you do about it, right? Life is not fair because you were not born a rich genius. Right?

NO! You don’t have to stay in the same state as you are now, if you hate it. If you’re happy as you are, congratulations! For the rest who’s not there yet, know that there are many things you can do at this instant to get out of the rut. I’ve summarized them into 3 simple steps (not necessarily easy though):

1)      Assess where you are. What’s causing the frustration? How much control do you have over this situation – can you change it? If not, can you seek help from someone else to change it? Know where you are today so you can go somewhere you want to be tomorrow. As Zig Ziglar said, you can’t hit a target if you don’t have one. Taking it one step backward, you can’t have a target if you don’t know where you are!

2)      Think BIG! Don’t settle for less than your dream and spirit. Most people have much bigger dreams than they currently settle for, don’t you agree? They just simply settle for what they think they can achieve. Once you do that for a certain period of time, you will be stuck at that level. To change that, you HAVE to think BIG! (There’s a good book out there called “The Magic of Thinking Big” for which I’ve been an avid advocate for years.)

Stop listening to those failing stories from your friends or family, you’re aware of them already. Instead, choose to focus on the success stories from great leaders and revolutionaries. Life would be much better if the media would publish more positive news than negative ones, and that the weather forecasters would tell us today would be 60% sunny rather than 40% rainy!

3)      Take action. Actions always speak louder than words, you know it. Some people know what they need to do to get to where they want to be, but they often stop short of DOING it. But you’re different! You’re unique because you want to succeed. I know it because you’re reading this far in the post. So, I’d recommend reading this blog regularly and buying this book, “StrengthsFinder 2.0” by Tom Rath. Take the online assessment and find out what you top 5 strengths are. Align yourself with where your natural talents lie and keep building on them and live your passion. Now you’re doing something that would help you to “unstuck”. This book is good because it takes you less than 2 hours to get into what you want to know about your own strengths and what to do about them. The rest of the book is just about capitalizing on others’ strengths. If you think this won’t help you, just do something else that you think would help you. The primary key is to do something, since there’s no single formula for success anyway. At least if you move forward, you’ll be closer to living the life you’ve always wanted than if you stay still.

So, here you go: assess, think, and act. And let me know of your success!

(Photo: NIOSH )

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