Are You In A Rut? Then Change!

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

I’m not sure who said the quote above, but I use it quite often. I actually used it yesterday at my salon with one of my clients and this is what inspired this post.

Sheri’s Hair Story:

I have a client, let’s call her Sheri. Sheri comes in and she isn’t always happy with her hair. She has a decent amount of hair but it’s very fine with no natural body to it. She describes what she wants and I start the hair design. After I finish, I ask her if I can style her hair because Sheri usually puts product in, combs it in place and lets her hair dry naturally. She said she loves the way my hair looks. I really wanted to style her hair so I could show her that she can make it look similar to mine.

So I asked her and she let me. Sheri has a short haircut and I styled it showing her what to do as well as how to use product to make her hair have more body and life. It looked amazing. The other stylists even commented on how good it looked. She said ‘Are you kidding, I’m 60 years old?’ First of all she doesn’t look any where near 60 and is there a rule that you can’t wear certain hair styles because your 60? (ok, I’ll leave this for another post and you can check out Long Hair After 50?)

I told her she wasn’t used to styling it this way and she had to change her habits in order to change the way her hair looked. She said ‘I know, I know.’ But then she started fiddling with her hair like she always does, making it look like it always did and thus, not the way she really likes it to look. She’s in a rut with her old habits of styling. I did finally convince her to leave her hair the way it was (and I then re-styled it so she looked fab again) and tell me how many compliments she gets on it that day next time she comes in. I’ll let you know when I see her in 6 weeks!

I know I’m talking about hair, but the quote at the beginning of this article goes for anything in life. If you want things to be different, you have to change what you’re doing. Make sense? I have to remind myself of this almost on a daily basis. Change comes very easy for me when it concerns hair, but what about breaking out of a belief that goes through your mind every day when you try to achieve something else like a new business venture. It’s those incessant thoughts again that creep in and stop us right in our tracks.

It’s time to do something about it. Stop complaining and start changing!

Here’s how to start:

1. Become aware throughout your day of any unwanted emotions or frustrations that appear.
2. Realize what the root cause of that emotion is and write it down.
3. Write down 3 things under that root cause that you can do differently that would make a positive difference in your emotion.

For example:

It’s my day off and I suddenly get this overwhelming feeling of frustration. I stop and feel this feeling and contemplate what the root cause of this is. I realize and write down my root cause which is that I have so much to do I don’t know where to start.

Under that statement I write down these three things I can change to help alleviate this emotion rather than staying in the rut of having this frustrating feeling all day:

1. Write a list of the 3 most important things to do today.
2. Start on the first thing and complete it before going on to the next.
3. Be grateful that I am here and able to even choose to do these things.

You’ll be amazed at how this simple exercise can change your mood and set you up to accomplish the changes you thought you could never make.

So start climbing out of your rut today and enjoy your life!

If you’d like to learn more about clearing those unwanted thoughts, you can always go here and sign up for my free report.

Abundant wishes,

Gina

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