The best way to get unstuck
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall. It is one of the most common struggles with this career path and can be difficult to shake off. Stuck City is a place any creative, self-employed, and curious people travel to regularly. It's a difficult place to escape. The feeling of being stuck amplifies anxiety and accelerates demotivation. It is the great vocation-killer. How many incredible creations will never reach us because of it? Stuckness appears when we deal with too many opened loops, during or following a period of hard work, or when we have several good options or none. The cure is simple: do something. Do something because the way to escape stuckness is by taking action. Originally, I wrote "do anything" because what matters is to do the very opposite of staying still. However, to some, anything can be more intimidating than something because it has implications of limitless possibilities
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall. It is one of the most common struggles with this career path and can be difficult to shake off. Stuck City is a place any creative, self-employed, and curious people travel to regularly. It's a difficult place to escape. The feeling of being stuck amplifies anxiety and accelerates demotivation. It is the great vocation-killer. How many incredible creations will never reach us because of it? Stuckness appears when we deal with too many opened loops, during or…
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