{"id":1238,"date":"2021-05-21T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2021-05-21T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:35:13","slug":"what-to-do-when-youre-feeling-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/05\/21\/what-to-do-when-youre-feeling-stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When You\u2019re Feeling Stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With not much variety in our personal or professional lives this year, many of us have found ourselves in a rut: unmotivated, unenthusiastic, and uninterested.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no easy answer for getting out of a rut, of course, but Healthline <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/how-to-get-out-of-a-rut#embrace-impulsivity\">offers some practical suggestions<\/a><\/strong> for turning things around.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those suggestions are simple, like giving your brain a break. The idea here is that unfocusing ourselves (letting go of our typical patterns and routines) can spur creativity, and lead to new ways of doing things.<\/p>\n<p>They also suggest letting go of perfectionism; not just because it can slow our work, but because focusing too much on mistakes can lead to anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, Healthline puts self-reflection front and center. They point out that what we see as a rut could, in fact, be something more serious: it could point to clinical depression, for example. Far from being alarmist, it\u2019s a good reminder to check in on ourselves, and to ask ourselves why we\u2019re feeling what we\u2019re feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With not much variety in our personal or professional lives this year, many of us have found ourselves in a rut: unmotivated, unenthusiastic, and uninterested. There\u2019s no easy answer for getting out of a rut, of course, but Healthline offers some practical suggestions for turning things around. Some of those suggestions are simple, like giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}