27 Feb Feel Stuck? Use the Rule of 5 Little Things to Stop Being Frustrated and Stressed and Start Being More Productive and Focused–and a Lot Happier
No matter who you are or where you are in life, we all can get a little stuck sometimes.
That is, there are times in all our lives when we’re not sure how to move forward, where to go, what to do!
That’s OK. That’s normal. But there are ways we can move forward and get unstuck and as we do, ways to feel less stressed and anxious and more happy and well …
via Inc.com by Jeff Haden
Sometimes seeing the seemingly impenetrable forest can keep you from seeing all the trees you can easily fix.
We bought a house that needs a lot of work. Quest water pipes. Roof near the end of its lifespan. Kitchen that is (literally, not aesthetically) barely functional. Two unfinished rooms. I can go on and on.
We knew all that when we bought it, but figuring out where to start was surprisingly hard.
Replace the Quest pipes? Absolutely. But then again, we also need to move the hot water heater, plan for a new master bath, decide whether to turn an existing full bath into a half bath, figure out where we’ll put the washer/dryer hookups–every decision creates a cascade of other decisions that, unless we want to risk going backward at some point, need to be accommodated.
Replace the roof? Seems simple, but we’re thinking about adding shed roofs over some windows. And might use metal instead of shingles over the long front porch. But also might replace the columns that hold up the porch, and the porch ceiling, and remove the railings since the porch is only a foot off the ground. It seems like unless we want to risk going backward at some point, we need to figure all that out, too.
So yeah: A little paralyzing. As many entrepreneurs planning a brand-new business can attest, thinking about what you may want — or need — to do later makes it extremely hard to decide what to do now.
But then I remembered a conversation with Joe Satriani, the 15-time Grammy-nominated guitarist. who is the top-selling instrumental rock guitarist of all time. And the quintessential entrepreneur. Joe used a credit card to found his own record label, publishing company, and record his first album — which in the process allowed him to retain ownership of his own masters, the holy grail of artistic and business control. (Ask Taylor Swift.)
As Joe told me …
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