If You’re Feeling Stagnant…

Where are you “waiting” in your life?
What do you keep saying you want to do, but haven’t done yet?

Over the past month, I’ve started to see all of the places where I’m waiting.

I’m waiting to write until inspiration strikes.
I’m waiting to hire my Coach at the 1:1 level.
I’m waiting for my person to magically appear.
I WAS waiting to ask for a raise at my part-time job, but I ended up doing that last week. {Yay!}

The list goes on and on, from big things to little things and everything in-between. My mind wants me to believe that there will be a “right time”—that everything will fall perfectly into place, therefore minimizing messiness and risk.

In waiting, I’m hoping to bypass fear.

But that’s not how it works. There will always be fear. In the face of possibility, fear is always present.

It’s when you try to bypass the fear {hoping it will go away before you take the action}, that you become stagnant. Waiting energy creates a standstill. The longer you wait, the more stagnant you become. You start to feel tired, lost, purposeless. Similar to the person who feels too tired to exercise—she thinks she has no energy to do so, but actually, exercising is what will create the energy.

The same effect occurs when you begin to shake up your life.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to take a sledge hammer to how things have been. Things like: Taking a different route to work, catching up with someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time, or lifting weights instead of running—these small tweaks create a ripple.

Like a wheel that’s been caught in a rut, movement creates the back-and-forth momentum that will push it up and out.

So if you’re feeling stagnant right now and you desire to get moving again, how can you shake things up?

Make a list.
Take the actions.
Watch as new solutions appear.
Create momentum.
Get moving again.

It’s really that simple, yet we complicate it by committing to our fear versus our possibility. We complicate it by committing to staying the same versus trying something new.

With love,
-Kayla

P.S. Feeling stagnant is part of the human experience, so if you are here, it’s okay to be here. There is a gift in every state. However, if you’ve moved beyond the gift of the moment and you feel the spark to start again, but can’t—that’s usually resistance.

This is also the place where I’d love to support you.

SO, in honor of my favorite time of year {yay, FALL!}, I’m clearing space in September to gift ten complimentary Create The Impossible Sessions to ten individuals who are desiring to get back into action and on track to create what they want NOW instead of years from now.

If this is you and you’d like to claim one, email me at kaylamacarthurcoaching@gmail.com and tell me why this session would benefit you.

Looking forward to hearing from you! <3

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