Overcoming Ruts in Personal Development

One of the most common questions my students at Stanford ask me is, "I'm stuck

in a rut. What do I do?" My answer is, it's likely due to one of four

things, and it could be a combination of these.

So number one, what am I avoiding?

And I need to go right at that. Number two, where do I start?

Translate my goal into something very simple that I can do today.

Number three, how do I win today? Just write down three things I can move

forward on today, and then get up and repeat that tomorrow.

And number four, what are the habits that are interfering with where I wanna

go?

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