Feeling frustrated with the in-betweens?
We are a goal-oriented people, and we like to know “where” we are headed–whether it’s by the end of the day or the end or our life. It’s just the in-between that befuddles us.
— Terry Hershey
Today is a “moodling day” in which I get to do some enjoyable tinkering and, hopefully, arrive at some creative insights about the “in-betweens,” AKA the “not quite there yets,” also called the second stage of a transition: The Neutral Zone.
I’m starting my moodling session by playing with a silly little prefix named “Peri” – and just in case you wondered, I’m not referring to the mythical and possibly vengeful sprite named Continue reading » How to Unfuddle Your In-Betweens
What do you do if you’re stuck in one place and you want to move on?
…both the person who leaves early and the one who stays late are avoiding endings and the discomfort of facing the fact that there is a break of some sort in the continuity of things.
— William Bridges
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
Once upon a time a little kid would climb a couple of feet up a chain link fence so he could watch the “big kids” play next door… but he always wore these big clompy tennis shoes with humungous toes that got stuck in the links… after a while the little guy would get bored and decide to climb down – only to find that his shoes were securely stuck… and then he’d start calling out to his empty yard, “Hep… hep… hep…” Eventually he’d Continue reading » How to Get UnStuck
How do you go on when you can’t GO anywhere?
At the point where I’m trying to force something and it’s not happening, and I’m getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
— Joni Mitchell
Sometimes I get “stuck” in the midst of a project… and whether it’s because of my confusion at not knowing how to proceed or from a simple deficit of personal energy, suddenly I’m not up for doing anything more. I seemingly can’t GO anywhere with that particular project… then what? Continue reading » When You Can’t Go Anywhere – Someplace to Go
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
— Lloyd Alexander
Lately, I find that hardest thing for me to do is to know how to keep myself positively focused. I keep falling into my own private pity party. I feel alone in a room of people. I feel alone within my home. I feel alone in the world.
As we’re living our lives, we all face challenges, some of which seem to repeat. We’re often challenged by gullies, speed bumps and holes in our sidewalks. They slow us down. They hang us up – and until we find a Continue reading » Finding a Way Around Life’s Gullies
Life’s been all work and no play lately, you say?
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
— Jennifer Yane
Geez, three, count ’em THREE posts already from me about New Year’s resolutions – you’d think I was stukkk in resolution mode! But more than likely I’m stuck in feeling that, no matter how busy I am, no matter how much I do, “it’s just not enough”. I get to the end of the day and I make a list of what I did because, without it, I’m feeln’ like Continue reading » Stukkk in Resolutions
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