Everyone gets stuck

Feeling stuck

When nothing seems to be moving.

You're not alone

Being stuck is rarely about not trying hard enough. Most of the time it's not knowing what the next step is, and everyone ends up there. Doing one small thing gets you going. Waiting for the perfect plan usually doesn't.

What can help

• Make the next step tiny, too small to fail. Doing something beats waiting until you feel like it.
• Change something. Go for a walk, work in a different room, talk to someone. Being stuck often just means you've been looking at the same thing too long.
• Say it out loud to someone. Explaining the problem usually shows you the next step.
• Stop waiting for the perfect move. A decent step now beats the ideal step never.
• Remember a time you were stuck before and got unstuck. You've done it already.