We’re honored to bring the first half-marathon to North Liberty, Iowa, to raise funds for the The Big O Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity. Just remember to embrace that feeling and use it as a prompt.Run for our community! Join us May 7 for a 5k, 10k, or half marathon to support our community and The Big O Foundation. Or perhaps you’ll decide to make a big change and move halfway around the world. Or you might decide that there are a few tweaks you want to make, or a few habits you want to change. When you pay attention, you may decide that you’re worrying over nothing and you don't want to make any changes. So, when you feel uncomfortable about your situation, It’s time to engage with that and ask yourself, “what is this feeling trying to tell me?” Your feelings are your inner guidance system, your inner GPS that’s pointing and tugging at your sleeves saying, “Hey, pay attention, something's going on here.” It's perfectly natural to have ebbs and flows in your career, and whether you’re ebbing or flowing, it’s not a permanent state. By definition, we’re all right where we’re supposed to be. The second thing is to remind yourself that you are right where you need to be. Remember That You’re Right Where You Need to Be Instead, just focus on yourself and where you are relative to where you were, and keep taking steps. I had a habit of comparing myself to the best-in-class person for each dimension, and of course I felt like I was languishing.įalling into the comparison trap can be really demoralizing. Especially important is to stop comparing yourself to the person who’s in the lead of whatever “race” you’re focused on. Yes, I mean looking back at where you started from and seeing how far you've come, instead of looking at where you are now versus the ideal of where you want to get.Ĭomparing your current situation to your ideal is always going to leave you feeling like you’re falling short because those two things move in tandem – as an achiever, you’ll always be striving for more and adjusting your target as you improve.Īlso remember not to compare yourself to everybody else. The first thing you can do is to remind yourself of the progress you've made. I've used all of these at different times and found they’ve helped me. When you're feeling like you're languishing, here are five things that you can do. So it’s easy to feel like we're going sideways or languishing, which is when that mental game becomes crucial. And in some cases, we’re getting even less feedback than 3 out of every 10 times that we do something. And that's just for the outstanding players – for everyone else it’s more often.īringing it back to work, sometimes our “batting average” can feel similar to that of baseball players. So there are seven other times when you're feeling like you're languishing. It’s a tough sport mentally in that you’re considered to be doing an outstanding job if you hit just three out of every 10 balls pitched at you, which would make your “batting average”. We started talking about the mental game for athletes, and she told me that in baseball, sports psychologists are now becoming an integral part of the team. I was reminded of this today when talking to one of my daughters, who's really interested in sports psychology. The interesting thing is, that's when your mental game becomes really important. Well, all of us feel that way at one point or the other, and I certainly had my share of feeling like I was languishing and going sideways in my career. Have you ever felt like you’re moving sideways in your career when you want to move forward, and had that frustrating feeling that you're languishing on a plateau?
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