When the long-term cost of our situation is uncomfortably linked to the short-term expense and pain of changing the situation, it’s easy to feel stuck.
One way to deal with the feeling is to insist that there’s no way to change the situation. That the price we’ll have to pay upfront is so big, we simply have to live with the day to day consequences, forever.
An alternative is to realize that we might have a choice. If we choose to stay where we are, we’re not stuck at all, we’re simply selecting our best option.
From there, we can make an informed choice about whether we really want to live with the long-term consequences of that choice. If so, at least we can own the outcome.
If you had tomorrow to do over again, how would you choose to do it?
Stuck is a situation, stuck might be a problem, and stuck can be a choice.
