Getting Out of ANY Personal Rut

To get out of any rut, you have to realize why you got into it in the first place

Think of yourself as the sheep and the rut as a neural pathway in your brain.

Doing something repeatedly forms those neural pathways. The more you do that thing (allow yourself to fume at the drivers on the highway or snap at the kids when provoked), the stronger and “deeper” that pathway becomes. Those brain patterns lead to patterns of thought and/or action – in other words, to habits. Habits that become almost automatic.

In other words: You squirm free of the rut, bound away – and fall right back into it.

But thankfully that isn’t the end of the story.