A grave is a rut with the end kicked out- Earl Nightingale
In my lifetime I have definitely been in ruts as far as my weight and health goes, I have been in ruts where I saw no end in sight to working 7 days a week, I’ve been stuck in thoughts that I would never find the right help I needed in my company. What else…stuck thinking I would never get out of credit card debt, stuck failing to launch a business because I didn’t think I had what it takes, stuck in my own self made thought prison of the loop of hopelessness. Stuck waiting for “tomorrow” when I would have more time, stuck doing a job that was not fulfilling because I didn’t think I could do anything else…I could go on and on.
Stuck is stuck and stuck sucks. Why do we get stuck? It’s almost like we are waiting for divine intervention, some big event or a giant hand to pull us up, something to save us and get us out of the rut. But what it takes is a decision. It takes pulling yourself up by the suspenders, and changing your thoughts. Your beliefs are what drives your behaviors, and if we are not designing our lives, we will be sucked into living our lives by default. The thoughts we think are what generates our emotions. If we are thinking we are stuck, we will feel that pain, that feeling of heavy weights on our feet, helpless to help ourselves. The feelings, the emotions, they control our actions. And our actions are what give us the results we are experiencing.
Thoughts=Feelings=Actions=Results
This will loop and loop, the results just verifying the truth of the thoughts, until we wake up and change the thought. Its a decision. A decision to take responsibility for yourself and to step up, out of the place that started out as the comfort zone, but has morphed into quicksand. Expand your image of yourself, use your imagination, there are no limits to what we can dream, and whatever we can dream we can achieve. Change your thoughts and change your life.
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E.M. Forster