Six years. That’s how long Rob stayed CEO of a company that refused to be resurrected.
His CEO support group begged him to leave. His wife watched the stress eat him alive. But he stayed, waiting to make the investors whole. Waiting for perfect resolution.”I didn’t realize how much stress I was carrying in my body,” he told me later. “I was living in the downward spiral professionally, but calling it strategy.”
Sound familiar?
In Quantum Surfing, we map the emotional guidance scale—joy at the top, depression at the bottom. But here’s what nobody talks about: the expensive limbo in between.
It’s not contentment. It’s not quite boredom.
It’s the energy of waiting.
Arthur knew it well: “I was stuck for a year. Waiting for the new CEO to value me like the previous one did. Waiting for my actions to matter—even though I knew they didn’t.”
I know it too. After my marriage ended, I spent months waiting for clarity. Waiting for the “right” next move. Waiting for permission to begin.
Here’s what we do in the energy of waiting:
- Over-analyze everything (guilty)
- Fill calendars with busy work
- Create meetings about meetings
- Tell ourselves we’re being “strategic”
- Mask stagnation with motion that goes nowhere
The energy of waiting has a charge aligned with fear. It’s self-soothing behavior—like a child sucking their thumb. We learned it young when our needs weren’t met. We still do it now.
But here’s the quantum shift: You don’t have problems. You have patterns.
Arthur waited for external validation. Rob waited for perfect resolution. I waited for certainty.
The cost? Arthur lost a year. Rob lost six. I lost months of joy.
The pattern broke when I stopped waiting and started saying yes—to everything. Even (especially) the uncomfortable invitations. Within one year, that simple shift led to supernatural experiences that birthed everything I now teach.
What are you waiting for? Permission? The perfect moment? Someone else to change?
The wait IS the trap.
Your patterns are producing your outcomes. When you change the pattern, everything shifts.
Sometimes the most powerful move isn’t strategic. It’s immediate.
Stop waiting. Start moving. Even if you’re slightly off-key. 🌊
What pattern keeps you in limbo?