{"id":646,"date":"2010-11-08T06:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2010-11-07T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T18:57:15","slug":"feeling-stagnant-and-lacking-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/lifestyle-design\/feeling-stagnant-and-lacking-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling stagnant and lacking direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been times during the years of keeping this blog that I have been literally bursting with ideas for things to write about. Sadly, this is not one of those times. At the moment I have an excuse, which is that I&#8217;ve been slammed with work since I&#8217;m back in an office and my company has had, in simple terms, a change in management. But prior to this, I didn&#8217;t have a whole lot going on, and was still at a loss for new ideas. Except for brief moments where great thoughts pop into my head (which typically fade into oblivion before I can get them out), I feel rather stagnant lately.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I feel like I am at a personal crossroads these days. Though I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;m not sure why it seems to be lasting so long. Something inside of me just seems to be stirring, and I don&#8217;t know how to unleash it or which direction to go in. I&#8217;m now two<br \/>\nyears into my 30s, and I just feel like I need to do more with my life, it feels like my wheels are spinning and time is passing with no real progress. While my 4 months of working from home sure gave me time to get a lot of work done around the house and catch up on unfinished projects, I don&#8217;t think they helped otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve learned that I&#8217;ll never be satisfied working for someone else, though at the same time being locked up in my home office wasn&#8217;t the solution either. But I do have a clearer vision of my goals, which I need to continue working towards. I guess I&#8217;m feeling disappointed that during my time working from home I wasn&#8217;t able to make any progress in achieving them, but I suppose it means that it was not the right time. <\/p>\n<p>You may notice that I mentioned the fact that I am now back in an office. The short story is that my prior company is no longer and I now work for a new company. We&#8217;re in a new office, but the work is much the same, as are co-workers, the only exception being management. The details are strange and convoluted, but the short of it is that a new company bought the prior company&#8217;s assets (the company had too much debt to continue, so they sold the assets, thereby enabling that company to dissolve, while we were hired into a &#8220;new&#8221; company), including me, and thus everything else is much the same. <\/p>\n<p>This is keeping me busy and though eating up what used to be free time, it is also helping me more clearly define what I want moving forward. The other thing is that it is helping me prioritize my time better, so hopefully even though I am much more busy, I am going to really assert myself and try to start getting side work which will enable me to pursue my true goal of employing myself.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do when you feel like you are stuck in your routine and feel that you aren&#8217;t making any personal progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been times during the years of keeping this blog that I have been literally bursting with ideas for things to write about. Sadly, this is not one of those times. At the moment I have an excuse, which is that I&#8217;ve been slammed with work since I&#8217;m back in an office and my company has had, in simple terms, a change in management. But prior to this, I didn&#8217;t have a whole lot going on, and was still at a loss for new ideas. Except for brief moments where great thoughts pop into my head (which typically fade into oblivion before I can get them out), I feel rather stagnant lately.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I feel like I am at a personal crossroads these days. Though I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;m not sure why it seems to be lasting so long. 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