Are you stuck in a rut?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The September/October 2021 issue of Speaker magazine has a useful article by April Callis Birchmeier on pages 30 to 35 titled Feeling Stuck? It’s Time to Bust a Rut. On page 34 she discusses these 7 strategies and tactics to get unstuck:

1] Move.

2] The tin man – WD-40.

3] Get to the root.

4] Phone a friend.

5] Create accountability.

6] Location. Location. Location.

7] Take 10.

 

On April 15, 2021 at Psychology Today there is second article by Nick Morgan titled Three tricks from psychology that could improve your life (Research shows how to get out of mental ruts and improve your mood).

 

Toastmasters club meetings also can get stuck in a rut. The September 2019 issue of Toastmaster magazine has a third article by Craig Harrison on pages 16 to 19 titled Infuse Your Club with Vitamin C: Creativity. (A very similar article with that title also had appeared on pages 16 to 18 of the January 2009 issue).

 

You also can get stuck when writing a speech. On February 23, 2020 I blogged about Finding speech topics and doing research. The October 2015 issue of Toastmaster magazine has a fourth brief article by Kathleen Fordyce on page 27 titled 3 Ways to Shake Off Writer’s Block.

 

The image of a thinking man was adapted from this cartoon at Wikimedia Commons.