Getting unstuck

 This week I got stuck with some work in office that I couldn't figure out. After two full days of thinking, I kind of figured out but not completely. More importantly, now I know how to proceed without getting stuck at that point. The desire to write something today combined with the day's events is making me write something about "getting unstuck".  

Why is getting unstuck important ? Because when we feel stuck, we can make incorrect decisions. We tend to make decisions based on moods. We forget to ask ourselves the simple questions. To start making good decisions, we can ask ourselves two simple questions - (1) Am I making these decisions out of my moods or am I making this out of logic and my true feelings ? - (2) Is it worth it to me ? In other words, if I succeed in my efforts in this, will life become better ?

Why to we feel stuck ? It could be any reason! One of the common reasons is - we might do the same things and expect a different result (Einstein said - don't do that :-) ) That's the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing without changing a variable will likely give the same result. The other reason is we did not try or did not investigate the options correctly. 

One can go deeper, and think why someone might be doing this ? The answer that comes to my mind is - fear of failure (or making mistakes). This could be a result of a person having bad or severe repercussions for making a mistake probably when young. That literally robs them of the chance of learning through mistakes. Most of the things we try does not work, so the better alternative is to have fun doing it! :-). 

When I got stuck on this work assignment, I had to literally try 20-30 different methods. I still haven't found a fix, but I do have a workaround to help me get unstuck :-). If I felt stuck, I would probably be making poor decisions on my other assignments (even the easy ones) for the rest of the week.  

So, next time we feel stuck, let's pause - think of alternatives, sometimes we will even know which ones to try first, but nevertheless its more important to try (using common sense) in some order  without the fear of failure. And once something works, we can stick to it :-).