Did you know that fear is a strong adhesive?

We all know that one person who is stuck on a job they hate, or who is stuck studying a course that doesn’t even inspire them to breathe. And for some reason they feel obliged to engage in that activity even though they are fully aware of the fact that it makes them unhappy.

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When I hear people say, “I’m stuck here”, I always ask:

1) Who ‘stuck’ you?

2) What did they use? Glue? Paper tape?

3) Is the glue permanent?

Because really, you’re never really stuck! You can quit that job that makes you so unhappy. You can take a different course for your masters. You can leave your Medical residency to build a start-up. You can switch from Banking to making shoelaces (if that’s what makes you happy). You can do whatever you want with your life because you’re not stuck.

Don’t be so hard on yourself. Don’t feel like you have to impress anybody. The standard of the world is for the standard people, the ordinary ones. The extraordinary ones are the people who dare to take that step, start that business, pursue that dream or launch that start-up. They fought the world, some of them had to drop out of school. So what stopping you from being different and setting your own standards? Glue?

You’re not stuck, you’re afraid.

“No matter how far you have gone the wrong way, its not too late to go the right way.”

Turn around, don’t look back.