I so wish that was my title, alas no, I can’t claim any ownership.
I was driving back from the doggy walk today and couldn’t turn the radio over, and the channel I was forced to listen to, thankfully played Kathy Mattea’s ‘Standing Knee Deep In a River (Dying of Thirst)’.
Not heard it?
Youtube video below for you: get your cowboy boots, studded shirt and Stetsons on though! Yeehaa! It’s very ‘country’!
I hadn’t heard it in ages. And it got me thinking…
If you’re proclaiming stuck-id-ness, in your career, biz, life. Would I be right in saying that you can ‘see’ the pictures (no matter how feint or perhaps not the dominant thought) of what you really want life to be like?
I believe there are different levels of ‘being stuck’, there is
Stuck definition = ‘I have no idea which way to go now’
Stuck definition = paralysis of action
Stuck definition = I know what I need to be doing and why, but I’m too scared to move
Sticking with the title analogy of rivers and thirst…
Sometimes right beside river there are ideas, solutions, resources, people, tools, but we’re so close to source that we can’t see them.
We can be standing looking out in all the different directions, confused and bewildered about what to do next, but if we paid attention to what’s happening right in front of out noses, we’ll see that our feet are getting wet!
They can be there, calling to you from the riverbank, throwing you a lifejacket, asking you to jump in a boat, but you are to concerned with the water all around you have lost the ability to open your senses to anything else.
Knowing how to take a drink is very different to actually bending down taking the drink.
Look closely at one area of your life for 10 minutes today. It doesn’t have to be the biggest problem you’ve got. Write a list of 10 possible solutions, ideas, resources, actions, people on the riverbank you could take, approach, ask for help to end the thirst. Take action on just one!
Take the hint.
I’d be interested to know, what would be your number one tip for unsticking yourself? Comments welcome.
Oh, and here’s the video as promised (youtube)…take it away Kathy Mattea! Go listen, I can wait.<
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