When You Are Feeling Stuck in Life
By: Avery Jackson
Tags: Lifehacks, Depression, Emotions, Business, Life Lessons

Have you ever felt stuck?

Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, you can’t stop thinking about one specific thing or feeling sad? Or there is just this hurdle that you can’t seem to get past?

Trust me, I’ve been there…and the feeling sucks!

So, how do you get out of feeling stuck and stagnate, and start gaining momentum? What does it take to immediately stop doubting yourself and your abilities and start feeling confident, empowered, and in-charge? How do you transform into thinking BIG and believing in a vision connected to passion?

It is actually quite simple: You change your inner voice. You become disciplined in the things you tell yourself. You take inventory of the verbiage your mental voice uses on a daily basis and you monitor, control, and filter it. This takes patience, persistence, and requires discipline. It takes not only understanding that you can get through difficult times, but also knowing that you will.

I’ve been bruised, beaten, scared, and challenged both physically and mentally. I have failed drug tests, failed an important real estate exam that I spend months studying for, I have jumped from sales job to sales job, I have not been able to commit to a girlfriend, I have been told my ideas were stupid and that I was weird, I have disappointed myself time and time again, and I have struggled with ups and downs on a daily basis.

The reasons I tell you this is to give you hope and to share authenticity. This is evidence that it is possible to get through difficult areas of your like and turn them around. When you can become your authentic self, you will feel more at peace and serene.

Commit to success. Wake up early every, eat good foods, develop healthy habits, meet new people, and enjoy the process! Realize rejection is a part of life.

I mean, the basic function of our universe rejects us every day. Gravity requires us to persist every second of every day. The most successful people on the planet wake up some mornings with no clue what to do. The thing I want you to know is that it is normal. You do not have some kind of problem you need to take medication for. Everybody, regardless of their money, relationship, job, or stature in life, or how much they present that they have the whole package in life, everybody has those days where they don’t know what to do. Everybody experiences uncertainty and a little bit of lostness.

There is nothing wrong with waking up not knowing what to do or a bit uncertain. As long as you continue to educate yourself, move, develop a great attitude, and practice healthy habits, you will get back on your feet and have things that pull you forward and excite you.

3. Get moving and exercise!

Go for a walk, go workout, do anything that moves you in the direction of something more productive than, “oh man what is wrong with me?”

You have to become more valuable to yourself and the environment around you. The only way to become more valuable is to improve and you do that by doing those difficult things you do not want to do. Go make that call, or talk to the girl, or talk to your boss, or go help someone else. Ask yourself, “Who can I help?” and help somebody. Helping someone will always make you feel better.

These are the things that have helped me the most. My whole life has mainly been a series of getting over losses. Now I have learned to attack situations instead of avoiding them. Acknowledge your feelings and become aware of the things you really want in life. Becoming familiar with your goals and setting targets to achieve them will help keep you motivated and get out of feeling stuck.

Life will not be easy, but just like working out in the gym, you must train and strengthen your discipline muscle in order to become the best you possible.

This is what I did and for the most part my life is freaking wonderful. All I did was this: I committed to success, I changed my mental/inner voice and became a more positive authentic self, I used self-education to learn how to improve the areas I was deficient, and I began to take action is all areas of my life. You can do this too, so go do it!