Nowhere to go

Sometimes I feel like I’m trapped in a corner. Nowhere to go. Stuck. I don’t want to stay where I am, but I can’t get moving.

Over time I can see two reasons to this “stuckness”.

One is that I don’t have the roadmap, the plan, to take me all the way to my goal. I don’t have the courage to take the first step without knowing what the next should be. So I’m stuck. I wait. Don’t ask me what or who I’m waiting for. I don’t know.

The other is that I lost track of where I’m going. I don’t know my goal. I guess you heard the quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in wonderland: “If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” This can be your excuse to stand still, to be stuck. “I need to define my goal before I can move, otherwise I’m wasting time.“ Another way to interpret the quote is that any step is the right one… But I don’t dare.

What both my reasons have in common is my lack of trust in myself. I don’t feel safe in the insecure, because I don’t have the confidence.

The reason for this misbelief is that I lost contact with myself. The solution is to get in contact. And the tool is to cleans my mind from all thoughts, take a few deep breaths, get connected and the trust is back. I am ready to take the first step.

Why do you get stuck? What is your trick to get going?