Life Unstuck Courses, Making A Change for the better

This post is brought to you by Unstuck Life Courses and The Motherhood. All opinions are mine.  It’s a myth that the ostrich sticks their head in the sand. In reality they’ve just got small heads, dig holes in the dirt to place their eggs and sometimes have to check on them. However, people do not have that excuse. I do not have that excuse. But ignoring things or hoping that they’ll merely pass over is something that I do often. Sure we’ll come back to the task, but that interim has a cost in one way or another. It could be a financial loss because I can’t find something, a reputation decrease or simply an eyesore in the things that I don’t clean up. Knowing that, as well as my personal weaknesses, I agreed to try Unstuck Life Courses.

Unstuck Life Courses are a series of videos, exercises and worksheets designed to help folks improve their lives.

Yeah, that’s about where I tuned out too. I don’t need help, I just this-or-that or that one thing that will assist me with this. Thank you very much.

Here’s the thing though about life and the moments where you get stuck. For me now it’s the clutter, both online and off that jams me up. A genius keeps a messy desk, but mine was more akin to press release graveyard than ‘creative-at-work’. Our stuck moments; those triggers that we can’t seem to get past   will change as we get older or work past them.

Making a Change is the first course from Life Unstuck. It’s broken down into four chapters, What’s Stopping You?, Clarity Will Guide  You, Belief Trumps Risk and A System Keeps You Going. Each chapter takes about 20 minutes to complete and guides you through using fill in the blank and multiple choice questions plus some motivational quotes and videos.

If Unstuck feels familiar it’s because they’ve had a free iPad app and web-based program that have won two Webby Awards and an Appy Award. The Unstuck Life Courses that we took are much more detailed, centered on a topic and cost $49.99 for one year of unlimited use.

Unlimited use, because what sticks you up now- may not do so in six months.

“What’s that you’re listening to?”, my wife asked. I told her about the course and why I was doing it. “Why do you ask?”, I questioned her.

I hear my CEO saying that occasionally. Her CEO oversees a massive worldwide company with thousands of employees. “He often has his people do courses like that”, she continued.

Each time you take a risk your world gets bigger. That was the quote that got her attention.   There are dozens of other money quotes in the course too. Each one you know is true and will positively impact y our life, it’s just a matter of putting them into practice.

What I gained from Unstuck is that I’m the only one holding me back. In this case it was from being cleaner, which in turn, makes me more productive and so forth. Will it stick? I hope so. Habits take time to become patterns, but we’re off to a great start. It’s two weeks in so far and our email box is a shadow of its former self, the clutter around the desk is kept at a creative bay and the overall house is cleaner.

Oh, the ostrich-the animal that everyone thinks hides its head in the sand? They’re can run at a steady pace at over 70 miles an hour. Our new motto, be the ostrich and do the things that others think you can’t.

So, what’s the one thing that you want to change, improve or tweak about you?