Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career

or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another.

And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck.

So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change,

we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take

to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear,

takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story and

the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck,

Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as

rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback

loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better

Up to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life.

The only thing that gets me away from the cowboy life is getting drafted.

I'm 20 and there's Vietnam. And when I get back, they have me run a ranch for the army at Fort

Carson. I get married five years later, we have our first child, the first to five, all girls,

except four of them. And I start managing a ranch in Roland, a hundred miles from anywhere.

And I realize, good golly, I'm responsible for this little critter.

It fills me with anticipation and doubt and dread. And with a fright, it fills my being with questions.

What do I do? Can I do it? Am I supposed to have something to teach the boys?

Whaty Mitchell is one of America's most beloved cowboy poets.

Growing up on his father's ranch in Elco, Nevada, he watched the cowboys around him with awe,

absorbing their stories, their manners, listening, observing and learning.

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