“If you have to keep wondering where you stand
with someone, perhaps it’s time to stop standing and start walking.”
—
Author Unknown
Seasons come and seasons go and we might be forgiven for thinking
whilst at the halcyon heights that we have everything sorted. But pride comes
before a fall. My 2010 was a case in point. It was a great year. But then came
2011!
Here are 29 ways to
help us get unstuck from an unsatisfying season:
1.
Acknowledge your weakness and even major on it. Make it your
magnum opus.
2.
Take a break by changing the pace and environment you’re in.
3.
Get around people, positive though realistic people.
4.
Don’t take no for an answer: persist!
5.
Enjoy what you loath and learn to loath what you enjoy.
6.
Consider being less interested in your own life such that
others’ lives are more appealing.
7.
Take up something new and make every effort to put it high on
your priorities.
8.
Go see your medical professionals and get intentional about
getting healthier.
9.
Believe in transcendence, which is a spirituality of faith in
the impossible.
10. When you’re mad,
smile into a mirror (a genuine smile).
11. When you’re sad,
smile into a mirror, and allow laughter, so long as you’re not ridiculing
yourself.
12. If you’re glad, take
a moment to think of those who have no clean drinking water.
13. Call someone you
haven’t spoken to in twenty years.
14. Grace the centre
stage of your former life, sit there and reflect.
15. Enjoy the vantage
point of somewhere you’ve never been.
16. Throw all your past
away without throwing who you are away.
17. It may seem novel,
pray. (This really should not be number 17.)
18. For every month
you’ve been stuck there is a month of growth deposited in the bank of good
lessons.
19. Take a chance on
destiny without allowing destiny to take a chance on you.
20. Decide to take your
embittered heart out with you when you dispose of the trash.
21. Taste the water you
drink, smell the air you breathe. Consume with your senses.
22. Try a night on the
streets. You’ll never take your bed for granted again.
23. Imagine what you
would do if you had an extra $143.65 in your wallet or purse.
24. Create something
that has never been created before. Make something priceless.
25. Think up some
wonderfully lucid thoughts that are drenched in holy fantasy.
26. Put an apple on your
boss’s or teacher’s desk, if it won’t create more problems!
27. Collect up all your
photos and start collecting heads, arms, hands and feet.
28. Reckon life to be an
irony. Start entertaining, without living, the opposites.
29. Stop trying to get
unstuck when it’s probably making things worse.
***
The strangest incident releases us
from being stuck emotionally or spiritually.
The less we try our hardest the
easier we find it is to learn and grow.
© 2015 S. J. Wickham.
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