Getting unstuck - Just keep swimming.

So, for Day Five's post I found myself a little stuck! I resorted to the list of questions for inspiration. I was stuck. So the question says...."what advice would you give for getting unstuck". 

That would be "read the questions..." right?

But next week, when I'm stuck again, the questions will be gone - that's tough!

Anyway, being unstuck is temporary. This week, Seth's #YourTurnChallenge has provided the motivation and drive to actually write, and post daily. It's been great. In doing so I've also either discovered or re-discovered so many tips about drive, motivation, shipping and failing, but I'm still a long way from solving that problem, or creating the habit of turning up again, and again and again, and shipping again and again and again... Then it occurs to me, you never solve that problem.

It's like running into a patch of form in your favourite sport, or a run of luck or whatever.

It's temporary.

You're only as unstuck as your current streak - blog posts, exercise days, wins, shipments, whatever...

It might sound a bit pessimistic to say you can never win - you can never solve the problem - this is not a game, but it's also means, you can never lose. It's all tempoary. The sun will still come up tomorrow.

So, while I've had to resort to the YourTurn questions to get some inspiration, this doesn't alter the fact that I'm learning a valuable lesson about what commitment it takes to do something as simple as submitting post every day for a week. It takes physical action as well as a mental commitment. It's all very well to tell yourself you can do it - and you'd be right, you "can" do it, but executing, there's the key.


So my advice on getting unstuck is to remember, you can get unstuck as easily as you can get stuck. Start small, and keep going. Like Dory says, Just keep swimming.