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The First Two Steps to Getting Out of a Rut
My daughter moved out again today. She was in between apartments and moved back home for a couple of weeks. She’s 27 years old, 20-lbs over-weight has a pet Pit Bull that seriously limits her options and is drifting aimlessly in a series of low paying waitress jobs. Despite having been born with every advantage in life she is in a rut, although she fails to see it as such.
Now on the plus side, she’s pretty, a very nice human being, polite (to everyone but me) and she is self-sufficient. She does not need constant cash injections like her 26-year-old brother because she lives very frugally. Of course, the last person she will take advice from is me, but I give it anyway.
No matter how old you are the answer to getting out of a rut starts here.
Change your habits.
Because there is a 99% chance that your rut has been caused by them.
- Change of habit starts with a change of routine.
- Whatever time you typically rise, get up one hour earlier every day.
- Devote that time to YOU
- Work-out, read or take an online course to increase your skills or learn some new ones. Better still do both as I do by walking 5k every morning with an audiobook.
- Make it a habit to become a little fitter and a little smarter seven days a week.
- You’ll be amazed at how quickly your attitude and actions will change with this new routine. With that change sometime in the next few weeks, new opportunities will surely come into view. Opportunities stimulated by your new routine and an hour a day investing in yourself.
