Stuck? How To Make The Right Decisions & Supercharge Your Path Forward

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Whether you feel stuck in your career, your relationship, your friendships, your habits, your overall life, it can feel hopeless. It can feel confusing. It can feel really, really frustrating. In my over 400 conversations with experts on this podcast, the topic of feeling stuck or how to make the right decision or how to get out of a slump comes up so, so often. So I decided to put together the ultimate unstuck toolkit, which covers everything you need from all angles (neuroscience, behavioral patterns, relationship patterns) to help you gain motivation, clarity, and finally feel like you are able to move forward. 🎧 What you’ll learn: • Make better decisions faster using the 10-10-10 framework • Use neuroscience hacks to gain motivation • Why beating yourself up keeps you stuck (and what to do instead) • How to know if you're working on a solvable problem or wasting energy • Why life feels "meh" and the simple daily practices that restore your capacity for joy • How to move forward when you don't have the perfect plan Check out the previous episodes of The Liz Moody Podcast discussed today: • How To Figure Out Your Dream Career (And Actually Get It!) With Suzy Welch • Neuroscience Hacks For Optimizing Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, BDNF, And More With Nicole Vignola • How To Get Yourself To Do The Thing You’re Avoiding With Kati Morton • Game Plan For When You Feel Stuck, Unmotivated Or Burnt Out: Simple, Science-Backed Hacks That WORK With Liz Moody • Design Your Dream Life: Habits For Wealth, Work, & Relationships You Won't Hear Anywhere Else With Raffi Grinberg • Stanford Professors: One Tool That Makes Every Life Decision Easier With Bill & Dave • 5 Things I Did To Stop Scrolling: How To Put Down Your Phone & Reclaim Your Attention With Liz Moody • The Secret To Making Hard Decisions: Minimize Regret & KNOW You’re On The Right Path With Megan Hellerer • The Sneaky Ways You Waste Your Life: Optimize Your Time, Do Less, & Have More Fun With Oliver Burkeman • The Novelty Rule: How To Use My Neuroscience Hack That’s Changing Millions Of Lives With Liz Moody • Stuck? The Science-Backed Tool To Finally Get What You Want With Tara Schuster • How To Hack Your Dopamine To Stop Reaching For Your Phone And Experience More Pleasure In Everyday Life With Dr. Anna Lembke Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/. Use our discount codes from our highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: • Puori: visit Puori.com/LizMoody and use code LIZMOODY at checkout for a discount and special offer. • Goodles: visit www.Goodles.com or available nationwide at major grocery stores. • Lumebox: head to TheLumeBox.com/Liz to get 40% off plus a free limited-edition hoodie (a $100 value). • LMNT: head to DrinkLMNT.com/Liz to get a FREE 8-count sample pack with any order. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 410. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether you feel stuck in your career, your relationship, your friendships, your habits, your
0:05.0	overall life, it can feel hopeless, it can feel confusing, it can feel really, really frustrating.
0:12.1	In my over 400 conversations with experts on this podcast, the topic of feeling stuck or how
0:18.5	to make the right decision or how to get out of a slump comes up so,
0:22.7	so often. So I decided to put together the ultimate unstuck toolkit, which covers everything
0:29.0	you need from all angles, neuroscience, behavioral patterns, relationship patterns, to help you
0:35.9	gain motivation, clarity, and finally feel like you are able
0:40.0	to move forward. Welcome to the Liz Moody podcast where we share actual, tangible solutions to
0:45.9	your real problem so you can feel as good as possible every single day. We are not going to tell
0:51.1	you, you can do it. We're going to tell you exactly how.
0:55.0	Up first, you're going to hear from NYU professor and best-selling author of Becoming
0:58.6	You, Susie Welch, who shares her famous decision-making technique to help us gain clarity when
1:04.0	we don't know what to do or which way to go next.
1:07.0	She also gives specific tips for when you feel stuck in a job and how to know when to jump ship.
1:12.6	There's almost like a shaking of all of us that you're doing a little bit where you're like,
1:18.0	you can't have it all. You need to figure out what matters to you. And you say this a few times
1:25.2	in your book, the Mary Oliver quote, this is your one wild and precious life. What are you going to do with it? Because if you aren't making these choices, these choices are still happening. Well, they'll make themselves. They will make themselves. They will make themselves. You'll just not make the decision, not make decisions. And when we don't make decisions, they make themselves and usually in a very ugly way. Yeah. Okay.
2:02.1	This feels like a good opportunity for you to share your very famous decision-making technique. Can you tell us about the 10-10-10 technique? Yeah. I'd love to talk about – look, 10-10 is a decision-making technique that I came to because I was at rock bottom. I was trying to do it all all at the same time. I had four little children. This is like 1995.
2:03.7	I had four little children.
2:01.3	My husband was one foot out the door. Then I was working full time.
2:07.0	And I had not gotten clear with myself about my values or how I want to live. And I was just trying
2:10.6	to do it all all at the same time. And I ended up going to give a speech in Hawaii and I brought
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