10 Ways to Reinvent Yourself When You’re Stuck in Life

Being and feeling stuck in life is an awful place to be.

When you are stuck, it feels as though you are literally just spinning your wheels in the mud and running around in circles.

It also feels as though no matter what you do or say, nothing will ever change for the better and you’ll be stuck in a rut forever.

If you’re not careful, being stuck in life can magnify the fear, guilt, shame, and/or apathy you’re already feeling. You can become even more stuck than you already are.

So rather than doing nothing and allowing yourself to get sucked into a really terrible rabbit hole, let’s explore 10 ways to reinvent yourself so you – and your life – can start to become unstuck.

How to reinvent yourself

When life feels a little too sticky, try these ways to reinvent yourself:

1. Focus on the Good

Whenever things aren’t going so well for me, I realize it’s time to stop and take stock of what’s happening in my life.

Usually, while some of it isn’t going so well, a fair amount of it still is.

Focusing on what is going well will help you take your mind off what isn’t going well and allow you to quickly get yourself out of your rut.

What you focus on magnifies.

So you might as well focus on the good stuff.

2. Change Your Diet

Since 20 – 30 percent of us are obese and most grocery store aisles are packed with processed foods, I think it’s safe to assume that we can all benefit from making healthier choices with our diets.

Even if you aren’t overweight, incorporating healthier choices into your diet will only have positive results.

Not only might you lose a few pounds, but eating more fruit will increase your happiness and resilience levels, making it easier for you to naturally reinvent yourself to become a healthier, happier, and better version of yourself from the inside out.

3. Clear Out Physical Clutter 

Want to reinvent yourself?

Get rid of anything you no longer like, use, or need.

Clutter is just stuff that isn’t the best of you, so why keep it around?

To complicate your life any longer than you have to?

By donating, selling, and recycling your old stuff, you’ll be able to find the real you, which is a really easy way to reinvent yourself as the person you always wanted to be.

When you de-clutter properly, you’re left with the best possible version of yourself.

Living surrounded by the best of who you are right now is motivating.

4. Clear Our Emotional Clutter

It’s easier to deal with physical clutter because you can see it.

Therefore, you know it’s there.

Emotional clutter is much more difficult because it affects how you think and do everything.

Yet, often, you’re not even aware of it at all.

You conquer emotional clutter by noticing your actions and being aware of how you feel throughout the day.

This means asking yourself a bunch of questions like:

• How am I feeling?
• Why do I feel this way?
• Is there anything I can change for the better at this moment?

This will help you become more aware of yourself, your actions, and your feelings.

It will also help you make small changes and feel like a newer version of yourself.

5. Change Up Your Routine

An easy way to get stuck is to get into such a routine that you’re always on autopilot.

Your life has become so systematized you don’t even need to think about it anymore.

That’s when life becomes boring and monotonous; you feel and look stuck.

While I’m all for systematizing the easy stuff, it doesn’t mean you can put it all on autopilot and never look at it again.

Look at your life and see what can be eliminated, changed, or added to help you reinvent yourself.

6. Make Yourself Uncomfortable

People get stuck when they become too comfortable with their lives.

We are meant to challenge ourselves!

So try to do something daily that takes you slightly outside your comfort zone.

It can be as simple as eating alone in a restaurant if you’re naturally shy or finally wearing that teeny-weeny-yellow-polka-dot-bikini despite knowing everyone is looking.

Whatever it is, challenge yourself in some small way.

You’ll find that you’ll feel more confident and that new opportunities will appear.

7. Reinvent Yourself – Get Up and Move

Move something – whether it’s your body, mind, and/or spirit get something moving because you cannot resolve your issues with the same energy you created them with.

Be open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.

Try reading a book, joining a meetup, or attending church to get your mind moving.

Get your body moving and the blood pumping by doing Pilates, running, or gardening.

If you need a big change to shake things up, consider a physical move into a new home, city, or job.

Whether you choose to move a little or a lot, moving anything will help you get unstuck and on your way to reinventing the way you show up in your own life.

8. Express Yourself 

Paint.

Do yoga.

Sing.

Play an instrument.

Write a short story.

It doesn’t matter: just get creative and express yourself somehow.

This is a great method to get unstuck and reinvent yourself because creativity is the truth of who you are.

It’s safe and healthy and can be a wonderful new exploration avenue.

Whether you do it for money or just the joy of being creative, we are all creative beings and thrive better when we express ourselves.

9. Take It Slow

We want to become unstuck as quickly as possible when we get stuck.

We don’t realize that sometimes, we get stuck for a reason.

When we take the time to look at our lives and how we feel about what’s currently going on, it gives us the ability to make small changes that can often have huge, lasting results.

You also don’t need to make dramatic changes to reinvent yourself.

Making small, slow changes is often the best way to become a new, better version of yourself that is easy to maintain.

This means you’ve taken the time to become a better version of yourself – rather than simply acting it out.

10. Create a Vision/Plan for Your Life

You may be stuck now, but a great way to feel you’re on a new path is to create a vision or plan of what you want your life to look like.

Write what it should look like and feel like.

Then, review that plan often.

Copy photos of your perfect life and paste them onto a vision board.

Every day, take steps to make those plans a reality and keep going until you become that vision.

Half the battle of reinvention is knowing where you want to be.

If you’re unsure what that is, a vision board or brainstorming can help you clarify what you want out of life.

These tips should provide good guidance when you’re ready to reinvent yourself

Along the way, you’ll hopefully pick up some great habits to help keep you and your life running smoothly.

They will help you get through any tough times that may come your way in the future.

Life isn’t always easy.

But when you have the proper tools to navigate it, you can get through the tough times more quickly and with much more grace and ease.

Let us know if you have any other tips for reinventing yourself in the comments below!

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