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If You Feel Stuck — You’re Not. Here’s Why
On a recent grey afternoon, the kind of Seattle winter where the clouds hang low and crowded in the sky, I met with a woman who was ready to change her life.
“I’m feeling stuck,” she said. This was a competent, talented human — poised on the edge of re-invention.
I nodded, a bit mesmerized by the grace of her straight-shouldered poise, her easy smile, the way she gazed out the window and contemplated her words. I get that sneaky feeling of stuck-ness; I hear about it from people who attempt to convince me of their stuck-ness almost daily.
“What if you’re not stuck?” I suggested. “If you look at ‘stuck’ literally — you have freedom of movement, your mind is agile and is asking questions, examining options; you reached out to me then drove over to have this conversation. You think you’re stuck but you aren’t. Do you see that?”
We pursued ideas of what’s possible when you’re not oriented toward stuck; we settled down and tapped into the wisdom center that lies beneath the rumble of thinking and ruminating; we focused a beam on what this wise, innately creative woman thought she might really want to do, how she liked to move through her day, the types of connections that made her laugh and feel good. We probed her definition of A Good Day. So much is discovered when we consider our Good Day.
