This Is How To Move Past Being Stuck
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Life doesn’t always go to plan… so let’s talk about this.
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from feeling stuck when you are genuinely trying to move forward. Not the kind where you’ve been avoiding something or putting it off (we all know when we’re doing that). I mean when you’ve actually been making an effort—thinking things through, trying different approaches, making decisions, taking action—and still, somehow, nothing really changes.
Or it changes just enough to give you hope… and then drops you right back where you started.
That’s the part that gets confusing. Because if effort alone was the answer, you wouldn’t still be here.
So what’s going on?
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Most of the time, it has very little to do with how much you’re doing, and a great deal to do with what you’re doing it from. We tend to focus on action—what we should do next, what we haven’t tried yet, what we need to fix or improve—but we rarely stop to look at the assumptions sitting underneath all of that.
And those assumptions matter more than most people realise.
At some point in your life, usually without even noticing it, you formed conclusions about how things work. About what’s possible for you. About what tends to happen when you try. About how other people respond. About whether things are likely to work out… or not.
Those conclusions don’t just sit quietly in the background. They shape your decisions, your expectations, and the way you respond to what’s happening around you. They influence what you notice, what you ignore, what you follow through on, and what you quietly abandon before it’s had a chance to go anywhere.
So you can be taking action—real action—and still be steering yourself back toward the same kinds of outcomes, simply because of what you’re assuming is true.
That’s why it can feel like you’re doing everything right and getting nowhere.
You’re not necessarily doing anything wrong. You’re just building on something you haven’t looked at yet.
So instead of asking, “What else should I try?” it’s far more useful to ask, “What am I assuming here?”
Not what sounds positive. Not what you think you should believe. What you actually believe, underneath it all.
For example, do you assume things won’t work out for you? Do you assume it’s going to be difficult, or that you’ll have to struggle to get results? Do you assume other people won’t show up in the way you need them to? Do you assume you’re on your own with it?
These aren’t always loud thoughts. They tend to show up in quieter ways—in hesitation, in second-guessing, in the kinds of choices you make without thinking too much about them. But they’re there, and they’re powerful.
Once you start to notice them, you’ll begin to see patterns that weren’t obvious before. You’ll see how certain decisions lead to familiar outcomes, and how those outcomes reinforce the same assumptions that created them in the first place.
That’s the loop.
And you don’t break it by pushing harder.
You break it by seeing it.
Because once you see it clearly, you have a choice.
You can pause in the moment where you would normally follow the same pattern, and you can do something slightly different instead. Not something huge or dramatic—just different enough that you’re no longer reinforcing the same assumption.
That might mean following through when you’d usually pull back. It might mean asking for something you’d normally keep to yourself. It might mean not abandoning something the moment it feels uncertain. It might mean giving something a little more time instead of deciding it’s not working.
Small shifts. Different choices. New outcomes.
And those new outcomes begin to give you different evidence about what’s possible.
That’s how things start to change.
So if you’ve been feeling stuck, it doesn’t mean you’re failing or that you haven’t been trying hard enough. It usually means you’ve reached the point where doing more of the same isn’t going to move things forward anymore.
Something underneath it is ready to be seen.
And once you see it, you won’t approach things in quite the same way again.
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