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Unstuck Series. Within you, lurking just below the surface, there are some beliefs that are limiting you.  Your Limiting Beliefs influence your thoughts and your perspective.  They mold your paradigm and keep you held hostage. You can break free from those beliefs.  You don’t have to be held hostage.  There is a simple 4-step process that will […]

From the Getting Unstuck Series. You here it all the time: “Knowledge is power.” Not true.  Knowledge is just information.  Perhaps it is information that is digested and understood.  But it is still information. For knowledge to be power, something else needs to be applied:  Action.  Action, based on knowledge, then becomes power. But here’s the hook:  Action that is […]

Part of the Getting Unstuck Series. Are you anchored, waiting for the next opportunity to sail?  Or are you stuck? Sometimes, we have to set anchor for a bit, let the tide change, wait for a storm to pass, or wait for a new day. Sometimes, we set the anchor so well that we end up stuck. Time to weigh anchor […]

Getting Unstuck Series: Don't Let Fear Keep You Stuck. Fear.  It hits us all.  And I’m not talking about a “fright,” a startle from something around you.  But fear.  True fear. We all have it.  But it doesn’t have to keep you stuck. The real problem is our relationship with fear.  We learn to avoid fear — and the things that provoke fear. In […]

Getting Unstuck Series. When we get stuck, we can’t see beyond ourselves.  When we can’t see beyond ourselves, we get stuck. Perspective — or lack of a different perspective — is what keeps us in that stuck space. The good news is a shift in perspective is always available to you.  In fact, there are several shifts you […]

How Unfinished Business Keeps You Stuck. It’s just human nature.  We like things And when they’re not, they can often tug at us, pulling energy and focus away.  When things are left hanging, we feel (oh, by the way, the last word from that first line is “finished”) incomplete, unfinished, unsatisfied. So, what is a “Loop?”  Great question.  This one concept, [&#...

Getting Unstuck Series. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, if you are stuck, one of the first things to do is give up your goals. Which may lead you to think that my idea of getting unstuck just means that you leave things the way they are.  Instead of being stuck, you might be stranded. Nope.  That is NOT […]

Getting Unstuck Series. Stuck.  We all feel it sometimes.  We can’t get ourselves in gear, out of our own way, moving in the right direction, or even moving at all. There are some reasons we get stuck.  But I truly believe we are never quite as stuck as we feel. When I feel stuck, it is sometimes helpful […]

Get Unstuck Series, Ep. 2. We all have those times when we feel stuck.  And we tend to get stuck for the same few reasons: The Past Limiting Beliefs Lack of Clarity Fear Sometimes, we stay anchored in the past, to the old stories and old scripts — and we don’t even realize it. Other times, we carry around limiting […]

New Series Introduction on How To Get Un-Stuck. During my career as a therapist, person after person came to figure out why they were stuck.  As I transitioned to coaching, I realized my focus was on how to get unstuck. How we get stuck is merely a starting point.  The real task is how to get un-stuck and moving toward our aspirations. When […]

We all often seek comfort. But is the comfort we find killing us? Is the comfort, perhaps more subtly, holding us back? Here is the problem:  we find something comfortable, something “better,” something bigger.  Then, instead of bigger, better, more comfortable, it just becomes the routine. [tweetthis]Habituation is a bitch! – Lee Baucom[/tweetthis] Habituation is […]

It is an interesting human characteristic that we spend lots of energy trying to rework and change the past — at the same time, we fail to believe we can change our future! A belief that the future is unchangeable (and actions/inactions that often reveal this hidden belief) is called fatalism.  It is a belief […]

Let’s just say it and get it out of the way.  You, I, and everyone else, is going to die.  An inescapable fact of life.  We will die. A morbid thought?  I don’t think it has to be a morbid thought, as much as an organizing thought. Reality. It brings things into focus. Years ago, […]

Control.  We all want it.  We strive for it, wrestle for it, grab for it. . . and end up trying to control the wrong things. Human nature.  We try to control the things we can’t control, and abdicate control over the things we should control. When we try to control people, events, and things […]

All the way back to the first century, one philosopher suggested 2 simple words to guide a thriving life (he didn’t really call it a thriving life, but that was what he described).  Those 2 words are still crucial for building a thriving life.  And they are 2 words that you can easily practice and […]

Ever feel like you are just running around on that hamster wheel, stuck and repeating? That’s the Stuck Cycle.  It starts with stress and ends with stress.  In between are the behaviors you do to cope (but that only leave you feeling worse). Here’s a little secret:  most people live in the Stuck Cycle.  That’s […]

“Life is not pass/fail but trial & error.” Nick Vujic How do you live your life?  When something doesn’t work out, do you see it as a failure, or another attempt?  When something tough comes along, do you take it on as an experiment, or walk away? We know it as children.  Every skill is […]

Where did we get the notion that life should be one smooth glide down Easy Street?  Never has been, never will be.  Life is full of struggles, times of discomfort, and challenges. Thank goodness! Growth only comes from the struggles and challenges.  What we call “stress” is what gives us strength.  We rise to a challenge, […]

About a month ago, you may have made a few resolutions.  Or maybe you didn’t need a resolution.  You already had a direction.  You knew where you were headed. How’s it going?  Are you on-track??  Focused???  Making progress???? If you aren’t, consider yourself normal.  But before you console yourself too much, you don’t have to […]

In the last podcast, I suggested giving up a Fear Life, and moving to a Fierce Life.  That was not a life devoid of fear, but one that chose a path in spite of fear.  It is the courageous life, lived with clarity and purpose, and with intensity. Sometimes, how we think about ourselves, our […]