Stuck in a Rut in the Muck of Your Life?

Too often, we get bogged down in the daily “to-do’s” of life and forget that we were actually made for something bigger.  I can’t tell you how many of my clients show up in my office because they are tired, overwhelmed and bored of their day-to-day lives.  Most of them are asking themselves “Is this all there is?”  They are trudging through their lives counting the hours, the minutes, to when they get to leave their job and go home… they are looking to Friday when the weekend is their own… they are anticipating the thing, the time, OUT THERE IN THE FUTURE, that will finally make them happy.  And yet, it never comes.  Life never changes.  It seems that this is all there is.  We are stuck in a rut in the muck of our lives… and it seems we will be there forever.

These seasons of discontent happen in all of our lives.  No one is immune.  The question is: how long will you remain stuck there?  Will you spend your life in a job you hate and wake up when you are 50 wondering where all those years went?  Will you roll over one day, look at your husband/wife, examine your life and feel deep regret and the choices you’ve made?  Or will you notice your discontent when it arrives, address it and alter it in that moment?  If you are awake in life, these times of discontent remain short: just a day, maybe a few hours… perhaps you are a master at rebooting and you can alter in just minutes.

Rebooting is the key to waking yourself up.  Human beings are wired up much like computers; when our systems are overloaded and we are under-performing, we freeze up.  The mouse doesn’t move, no solutions pop up… everything comes to a stand still.  These are the moments of the greatest discontent in our lives.  We stand frozen, looking out over a field of unfulfilled expectations, dreams and become overwhelmed with disbelief as we ask ourselves “Is this all there is?”  In that moment, what is needed is a reboot.  Just like a computer, we need to shut down, take a break, re-evaluate and re-invent.  These are the moments in our lives that create possibility and return us to ourselves; to our larger vision, our more important goals, our fundamental gifts.

CALL TO ACTION: Do you know how to reboot?  What activities, when complete, return you to “yourself?”  What activities bring you joy and satisfaction in life?  Check out our reboot toolbox under the tab “free tools” on the website for an exercise that will help you identify your reboot tools.  For those of you that want to reboot NOW and begin to create a life more consistent with your dreams, join us at our next REBOOT your life course in Racine.