It’s still January. This time of year is rife with cute new year resolutions, starting fresh, and gym memberships. Something about the calendar reset really helps to emphasize that.

But it’s also the time of year for ruts and its often-accompanied feelings of sluggishness, dread, and disengagement. For those of us whose new year’s glass is looking more empty than full, the idea of another year doing the same thing can feel exhausting and daunting.

We all have these ruts in different areas of our lives – in jobs, relationships, how we view ourselves. They’re normal. As are the cycles of feeling engaged and excited and then feeling less so, feeling like it’s just another vanilla Tuesday. Life is full of this.

A special characteristic of a rut is being especially “difficult to change.” The repetition of things and the familiar comfort of them can shackle us to our patterns of behavior and thinking just as strongly as they can to our outside circumstances.

If you’re finding yourself in one of these, coaching is an excellent venue for discovering new opportunities and creating a plan to seize them. Sometimes we want different outsides – a new job, more money, a relationship. And sometimes we just want better-feeling insides. The value of coaching is being able to see your thinking from a different perspective and then make the decision if that’s how you actually want to think and live your life. Sounds wild, but it’s true. That’s the transformation coaching relationships tend to bring out.

If you’re interested in trying out coaching with me, go ahead and set up a free consultation. We can get to know each other and decide if it makes sense to work together.

Got get ‘em this week.