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Chapter 1: What can you do if you feel stuck in life?
Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. If you're out there and you're not doing as well on your goals for this year as you wanted to, you can go ahead and download my free ebook on how to set, plan, and master your goals. Just go to goals2025.com.
It is absolutely free. Once again, goals with an S, 2025.com. Today, we're going to be talking about how to get yourself out of a rut.
Feeling stuck is one of the most frustrating experiences that you can have in life where you're putting in effort and you're just trying your hardest, but it feels like your wheels are just spinning and you're not actually moving forward and you're not making any real progress in life. And ruts can be many different things. It's not just about...
trying to be more successful and you're not becoming more successful. Ruts can feel, and they can be emotional, they can be mental, they can be even physical ruts that you can get stuck in as well. And when you're in one, one of the hard parts about being in a rut is it feels like you're going to be in it forever. And one of my gripes about
normal self-development is most people will be like, oh, you're in a rut. Well, the way that you want to get out of a rut is to try something new and to change your routine and just get more exercise or do a morning routine or drink more water. And those are all fine and stuff, but they're incredibly surface level. And they don't really address what the deeper reasons are
are as to why you're stuck in the first place. And that's what I really want to dive into today with you is why are you actually stuck in the first place? And once you identify that, you can get yourself out of it.
So today we're going to dive into why ruts really happen, what's actually keeping you stuck in place, and then we're going to talk about how to break free so that you're out of the rut and you break free in a way that lasts.
So the first thing that we need to do, the first step is we need to identify the root cause of your rut because your rut that you feel like you're stuck in can be way different than somebody else's. And so before we escape the rut and, you know, try meditating more or try going for a run before we do those types of things, the service level stuff, let's understand why you're in the rut.
Ruts don't just happen randomly. What happens is they're stemming from some deeper issues in your life, in your mind, or in your body. And so one of them can be that you have emotional burnout. You could just really be exhausted from a prolonged stress that you have in your life. Maybe you have emotional burnout from all of the responsibilities.
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Chapter 2: Why do traditional self-help tips fail to address ruts?
But if you feel like your identity is, I'm just dumb and I'm not worthy of success and I'm not worthy of happiness, well, it's going to be really hard and you're going to feel like you're spinning your wheels all the time.
And so what's really important is for you to take a step back and actually start to analyze what your identity is, what you think of yourself, because all that is, is just a perception and perceptions can be changed. And so it's a simple thing that you can do and just try to notice your negative thoughts about yourself.
Try to notice your identity of who you think that you are and try to start taking little tiny actions that align with who you wanna be. And then what I would recommend is figure out some sort of affirmation, some sort of phrase or sentence or two sentences or three sentences of who you want to be and who you're going to be in this world and start to brainwash yourself into actually believing that.
And so when you look at ruts, no matter how deep your rut feels, it's not permanent and it may feel like you're trapped, but in reality, you're just, what you're doing is you're repeating the same old patterns and patterns can be changed, which is what's great. And so the key here is to just address the deeper issue, of, okay, I am in a rut. What am I feeling? What type of rut am I in?
And now what is the best action for me to take in order to get out of it? And you don't have to overhaul your entire life overnight. You just need to intentionally take one different step today. And if you keep doing that over time, you'll notice in a couple of days, a couple of weeks, a couple of months that you're in a completely different situation than you were before.
And you're out of that rut. So That's how to get yourself out of a rut quickly. If you love this episode, please share this episode on your Instagram stories. Tag me in at RobDialJr, R-O-B-D-I-A-L-J-R. And then as I said earlier, if you want to download my free ebook on how to dominate your goals for this year, how to set, plan, and achieve them, you can get it for free at goals2025.com.
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