The following Mark's Daily Apple articles were written by Marksyssen

and are narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Welcome to Mark's Daily Apple Best of 2014, Volume 5, Getting Unstuck,

featuring How to Get Unstuck. Do you really believe you can change?

And how to overcome the I'll Do It Tomorrow instinct.

How to Get Unstuck.

I'm thinking today about the experience of feeling stuck.

I hear this a lot from folks who write to me about getting started with the primal blueprint.

In this situation, you know generally what to do.

Maybe you even feel like you have the drive, the motivation to do it, but the car just isn't shifting into gear. When you've tried all the basic tricks,

structuring your goal with a succession of low threshold changes to create small wins,

for example, getting outside for a walk every day,

linking new behaviors to existing practices and schedules, for example setting your supplements

next to your morning coffee mug each night, making your contingency script, for example,

if I'm tempted to do this, I'll do X, then maybe the issue is

deeper than any of these tactics can reach. Being stuck implies more than needing additional recipes,

strategies, or other day-to-day tools in the box. Being stuck suggests the need for some degree of seismic shift in

thinking or living. For some people, they feel stuck in bad habits. Others put it in terms of being

stuck in a personal rut. Whatever the language, they're held by a heavy sense of inertia

that doesn't quite make logical sense.

They feel deflated, exhausted, overwhelmed, alone when they've easily done far more complicated

things in their lives than this. It's like they can't get out of the starting gate, or they

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