Sometimes, life gets boring.
When that happens, we turn to blog posts to tell us what to do about it.
(That may not be what typically happens, but you’re here reading this now, so let’s just go with it!)
Here are nine things to do when you feel stuck in a rut.
“Look for ways to isolate people who are emblematic of the place you are in. You’ll capture more of the essence of where you are through that one image of that one person than you will with a hundred random shots of strangers intermixed with others.”
“Candor led to greater creativity. Thus, we propose a new rule for brainstorming sessions: Tell a self-deprecating story before you start.”
“The first step, then, to using your time in the best possible way, is to elevate what you believe you deserve. If you don’t believe you deserve to spend your time on amazing things, you’ll continually sabotage yourself. You’ll continue to act in ways to PROVE TO YOURSELF you aren’t worth more. You’ll try to keep yourself small.”
We know when we work too much—we just don’t know what to do about it.
Whether we love or hate our job, it’s easy to become consumed by it and destroy our work-life balance in the process.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
“I use the bathroom and shuffle back to bed, wondering what I should do. Normally if I woke up feeling like this, I would go to the emergency room. But no one at the hospital will have seen symptoms of having been in space for a year.”
“There are ways to work at a job you don’t like without complaining every day. Try and seek the advantages and the lessons you can learn.”
“One of the things that happens to girls is that they are encroached upon by the world. And one of the things that humor can do is…help girls stand up for themselves in ways that people don’t retaliate for.”
“You no longer enter the Internet the way you would a public library, where you browse and pick out what you want to read in peace, it’s more like the Las Vegas strip, where you’re bombarded with demands for your attention and need not exert any effort to be entertained.”
“Most people are making the ‘wrong’ kind of money right now. The wrong money is any money earned while doing tasks that are irrelevant to your Big Goals.”