No Random Wins with Nate Jomaa
No Random Wins is a podcast about the work behind the success people love to talk about.
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No Random Wins with Nate Jomaa
Stuck in a Rut? Build a Ladder. - S1E5
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Even the people who coach, lead, motivate, and encourage others can find themselves stuck.
After quietly battling his own rut for the past few weeks, Nate gets honest about what it feels like to keep showing up while feeling like you are running in slow motion.
In this episode, he shares the practical steps that helped him reset, including taking small actions, rebuilding consistency, controlling what you can control, interrupting familiar patterns, and evaluating where your energy is really going.
You may not be able to completely change your circumstances overnight. But you can take one small step, make one intentional adjustment, and start building your ladder out.
Because getting unstuck rarely happens through one massive breakthrough. It happens one move at a time.
Remember: wins do not come randomly. They come through hard work, strong systems, intentional action, and getting after it.
Today's episode is gonna be a little different. It's gonna be on a little bit of a different plane, if you will. We are back, and you might not have noticed, but I've been gone a couple weeks. Why? Because I've been in a bit of a rut. Yeah, I've been in a bit of a rut. So despite everything that I know, despite everything that I coach, despite everything that I teach, it doesn't mean that I am exempt from falling into ruts as well. And when I do, it's hard for me to get out of it sometimes because I'm busy coaching others. I'm busy being a positive impact on others. And I do have a little bit of a challenge sometimes doing that when I'm in a rut. But the last couple weeks, I've been able to get through that. I've been able to help others. I've been able to coach others, but I have been stuck in my own little rut. So I want to talk about that today. Let's talk about what's been going on the last couple weeks. There's been a little bit of work stress, which all of us deal with. All of us deal with a little bit of work stress here and there, right? There's been a little bit of personal stress, a little bit of challenges here and there. But in the midst of all of that, I've been trying to keep things moving. Right? I'm trying to not keep up appearances because I don't think that's the right way to put it, but trying to keep up the status quo, trying to keep things up as normal. So I've been showing up every day. I've been putting in the work, helping other people, making sure things are happening. But I've just been in this invisible, I guess, invisible force field that seems to be slowing me down. It's like when you have a dream where you're kind of like walking or like running in slow motion, like you're you're running, you're giving it all your energy, and you're just not going anywhere. That's kind of how it has felt for me the last couple weeks. So uh just wanted to talk through that with you guys. Have you ever felt that way? Have you ever felt like you're you're doing everything you possibly can? You're doing everything that you know to do, and there's just this impenetrable force field that's holding you back? I'm sure that you have. What have you done when that's happened? Curious what you do when you break through those things. So, what are some ways that you can get unstuck and get out of a rut? For me, it's taking small microactions. So if you get in a workout rut, as an example, instead of you know missing your 30-minute workout because you're in a rut, try to do a 10 or 15-minute workout. You know, if if you're out of your norm, if you're breaking tradition with the things that you normally do, you're finding that you're not consistent, maybe find one thing that you can be consistent with to help slowly dig yourself out of that rut. I think when you do that, psychologically, you're starting to build a ladder out of the hole that you're in, if you will. You know? One of the things that I've learned is that a rut sometimes is just a signal that the surroundings or that your daily thoughts need an adjustment. So that means that you need to maybe stop focusing on external factors and you need to shift what you're thinking about and what you're doing about to things that you can do that are actionable, that you can handle, things that you have control over. It's been said that you can only control the things that you can control. Sometimes that includes just a little bit of you shifting your focus, shifting your attention and being a little bit more introspective on things and then disrupting the monotony. Tiny variations in your day can change a little bit about how you go about things. So if you're working in an office, see if you're able to work at a different desk or in a different part of the office. If you work from home, maybe instead of sitting at your desk, sit at the kitchen table or sit outside or go to a coffee shop. You know, just anything that you can do to disrupt the pattern. I call that a pattern interruption. Just something you can do to kind of shake things up a little bit. You're still doing your thing, but you're just doing it in a bit of a different place. And then another thing is maybe take a few minutes to journal and figure out why you're you're feeling the way that you are, and then break it down into looking at some core values and things that motivate you. And that might help reset that a little bit with you in terms of, hey, I should be spending more time on these things and I'm not, or I'm spending too much time on these things and I should be focused more on these things. You know, and if if it comes down to it and you find that all of these self-help things aren't working, you might need to reach out to a professional, a mental health therapist, a behavioral therapist, uh, whatever the case might be for what you have going on. I don't want to make light of serious issues by saying that you can snap out of it, because I'm certainly not saying that. But there are some things that we can do on our own that can help us break out of the ruts that we're in. So I'll talk a little bit about my rut, talk a little bit about my personal struggle that I had. I felt like the last couple weeks that I was just, like I said, just running in slow motion. I was doing everything that I had always done before, and I just wasn't getting further ahead. I think I had gotten a little bit too complacent with some things the way that they were, and that complacency allowed me to drift off into a position or a place where I thought that I was giving it full throttle, but maybe I wasn't. And so after taking a step back and thinking about things a little bit more and evaluating things a little bit more, I realized I had to make a couple changes. So I'm not going to get into the personal aspect of the changes that I've made, but I feel like I've done a good reset. I'm in a position now where I feel like I'm in a better place, in a better mindset, and I'm able to get back to business as usual, as it were. So that may work for you. That may not work for you. I don't believe that there is a one solution for all when it comes to these kinds of things. I think everybody's got their own situations that they have to work through. Everybody has their own struggles, everybody has their own things that are holding them back or holding them hostage, if you want to put it in that context. And you need to identify what your breakthrough looks like. You need to identify what it is that you can do better differently to shake things up, to break out of that rut. And as I said, if you find that you're not able to get through, then you might need to consider professional help. And I don't mean that condescendingly at all. I mean mean that quite sincerely. But let's quickly go back over some of these things that we had talked about that'll help you get out and help you get unstuck. So the first one is making some micro changes, taking some micro actions. The example I gave was working out. Instead of working out 30 minutes, work out 10 or 15 minutes. And then I talked about doing things consistently, finding something that you can do consistently to help bring back that consistency that you had in your life. Controlling what you can control and stop focusing on external factors and then shifting your energy to your own actionable responses. Um, we talked about disrupting the monotony, the pattern interrupt. So, what works for you? Curious to know. Remember that wins do not come randomly. They come through hard work, they come through having systems and processes and getting after it.
