Feeling unmotivated? Here’s how to snap out of it.
You have goals. You know what you want. But sometimes you can feel stuck or three steps behind everyone else.
That’s what professionals sometimes share here, especially during the holiday season as the new year creeps up around the corner. Make no mistake, they know they want to advance in their careers and are ready for that next chapter. Some have even decided to start a side hustle to break away from the corporate day job. I’ve been there and I get it.
Sometimes you have to stop and look around and examine your environment. Sometimes you have to create a pattern interrupt.
If you feel like you’re two or three steps back and aren’t really committed to any particular path, but know you will be, once you get started, then I invite you to really examine who and what surrounds you on a regular basis.
This is about creating a support system to get to where you want to be.
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Now back to pattern interrupts in your life…
Pattern interrupts push you to not rely on your go-to instinctual actions.
For example, when you arrive home does a cluttered kitchen table greet you? Is your desk cluttered?
A messy closet or disorganized room just doesn’t make us feel good and worse moves us into a resignation state . Little things that shift your energy level negatively can add up and affect your motivation.
Usually, there’s a physical environment affecting how you feel. It could also be people – friends or family members. We’ve all been there where we get off a phone call or read a text and it just makes you feel bad. So in addition to your physical environment, really examine the people that make you feel good and the people that don’t make you feel good.
When you walk into a room you are essentially walking into a new segment. A new segment can be when you’re entering or exiting your car. Do you feel good about wherever you’re headed?
Entering your home, do you feel the urge to repaint or reorganize? Any change you want to implement in your life for the better can serve as a pattern interrupt.
A pattern interrupt is an action you take to snap out of it.
First you focus on how you want to feel. Hanging out with a new set of people or just giving your ear to new kinds of conversation can serve as pattern interrupts. Home decorating shopping, a new haircut also count as being intentional around achieving how you wish to feel.
To see change and experience change you have to be willing to make some changes.
And these changes do no have to be huge. They are found in small, subtle things you do, as long as they give you the pattern interrupts you need to snap out of it.
This morning in fact I sat down to write this very post, however I didn’t feel I had the energy to really focus. I went out with my daughter, took her to get a haircut followed by some light Christmas shopping. I’m now here, I’m present and in full focus from recognizing my lower energy earlier just didn’t feel right. It’s a shift and you know it when you feel it.
Once you find your peaks and valleys in energy level, that’s when you can commit to a few hours a week in that new program or pursuing activities towards that goal.
Mindset is 90% of your success. It applies whether you’re in a new relationship, whether you’re seeking a new opportunity in your career, or whether you’re buying a new car. It’s putting your intention out there and making sure that you’re feeling in a positive high vibrating energy frequency to receive it.
Really think about what are some pattern interrupts that you can inject in your life and I literally mean INJECT into your life?
A pattern interrupt should give you a ‘Wait, what?’ type of response.
Wait, what did I just do? Did I actually just say that?
It could simply be doing something completely different at work, maybe just speaking up or pushing back on someone where you suddenly straighten your back and are feeling more aligned.
As we reach this last stretch of the year, this might be a good time for some reflection, and really analyzing what is it that you need to do to support your environment. Your body is your environment, your physical body is your environment and also determines how you feel.
I’m also referring to your emotional well being, and really being committed to how you feel by doing just one or two things so that you are in a a better headspace to ask that question, take that course or enroll in that program, whatever it might be.
So that’s how you do it. There’s no secret sauce here. You have to recalibrate. This is gutsy inside-out leadership. That’s what this is all about. And then you’ll be in a place where you can just really move forward. Self-care as well can be a pattern interrupt.
So think about some patterns interrupts. I’ve shared with you a couple here that we’ve implemented – the professionals here at In Our Shoes, myself included. I don’t share anything I have not personally experienced or those in our gutsy village have implemented with success.
For me, my pattern interrupts are getting in the car and driving to the beach or driving to any body of water. Sometimes it could just be taking a shower and just connecting to reconnect with yourself. That’s how you get two steps ahead of it. That’s how you align yourself and then you can really give more attention and focus to some of the things that you’re looking to achieve. But that alignment is really key.
So what type of pattern interrupts can you create to help you clean the lens and be more present and alive? The world as you know, needs more people that are alive and when you feel purposeful that will be felt by everyone around you. So let me know how you’re switching it up!
All right. I will talk to you soon. Bye now.
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