“I’ve been stuck for a year.”
Yesterday, a brilliant client shared this with me. She typically pulls in $600K+ annually. This year? Everything’s off.
Sound familiar?
What worked before suddenly doesn’t. You try different approaches. Nothing shifts. The worry creeps in. Then anxiety. Maybe even despair.
Here’s what most people miss: Results are 80% inner game, 20% inspired action.
When you’re stuck, it’s not about working harder at what’s not working. It’s about recognizing that your energetic signature has gotten stale. You need housecleaning — not of your strategies, but of your patterns.
After I shared my son’s 30-day embarrassment experiment from last week’s newsletter, something clicked for her. She realized she didn’t need another business strategy. She needed a behavioral game.
But here’s the trick: Don’t gamify the obvious thing.
Creating a challenge to make 100 cold calls? That’s just forcing yourself to do what you think will move the needle. It’s exhausting. And it rarely works.
Instead, go sideways. Ask yourself:
- What pattern am I stuck in?
- What am I secretly afraid to do?
- What’s actually depressing my energy?
Then devise your crazy hack.
My client realized she’d become invisible in her own city. Working from home. Same routines. Same energy. So she’s designing a 21-day visibility game — not for business, but for aliveness.
This reminds me of what happened after my son finished his Australian experiment. He headed to Paris without speaking French. Most people would take language classes and stop there.
Not him. He enrolled in French acting classes. Then auditioned for films.
He was cast in one. Seriously.
Because when you’re playing a game that lights you up, the universe conspires to play along.
Your stuck place isn’t a business problem. It’s an energy problem. And the solution isn’t in your head — it’s in creating a game so audacious, so unexpected, that it shocks your system back to life.
What game would wake you up? 🚀