Questions to get un-stuck

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Often we feel stuck in life.  Sometimes we don't even have specific complaints - it's just a vague feeling of dissatisfaction.  This vagueness is one of the reasons for being stuck - a lack of clarity and definition gives your mind little to work with.  When you have a vague feeling of incompleteness or that something is lacking in your life, it can be helpful to ask the following questions.  Take the time to be very specific.

• What is wrong?  What specifically bothers you about your current circumstances? Look deep to see what is causing your uncomfort. Be precise.
• What details contribute to this problem?  Include the people, places, and things involved.
• What do you really want?  Do you have a clear picture of what will truly make you happy? Visualize yourself in the new set of circumstances.
• How have you personally contributed to the current situation? 
• Why are you contributing to the situation and why have you not resolved it?  Is it fear, complacency, a lack of knowledge, guilt?
• What can you do now to begin to change the situation?
• What have others done to solve similar problems? 
• What can you learn to do to change the situation?
• What metrics can you use to measure your progress?
• How will you know when you are done?

Zen Presence - Ideas for Meaningful Living
NLP

Worthiness

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A friend of mine recently told me that they don't feel worthy. Worthy of what?  By who's standard?  

Worthiness is a concept that I don't care much for. It is a fabricated idea of the mind.  It doesn't apply to real life.  We are a different person every moment.  At what point do you judge worthiness and who judges?  

Ten minutes ago I was an unworthy bastard, but now I've changed. 

Tomorrow I may be an S.O.B.
  
Next week I'll be a saint - I promise.


Seek, experience, learn.  Do not be bound to past experiences or mistakes.  Open yourself to the beauty of experiencing life and move beyond the self imposed limitations of judgement.

 "Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true." ~ Richard Bach

Zen Presence - Ideas for Meaningful Living

A Man With No Problems

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I saw a man with no problems last week and I shuddered as he passed by.  He'd come to the town's half- marathon as a normal human being, with problems like all of the rest of us.  He had a wife, children, grandchildren, bills to pay, grass to cut.....but that all changed.

I didn't see him during the actual moment of transformation, but right after it.  As the medics loaded him into the vehicle and called off the life-line chopper I said a short prayer.  I was so thankful to have the problems and blessings that come with being alive.

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