 Whenever you are stuck on a project, move your body and change your location and see if that gets you unstuck. Simple as that. When you are working on something and you can't seem to figure a way through, you keep spinning your wheels, maybe you're procrastinating, you're surfing Facebook or doing other unproductive activities, I really encourage you to move away from wherever you are. So you have to move your body away from wherever you are and find whether that gets you unstuck. Because when we're stuck on something, it's because we're stuck in a mental loop, okay? And that means we need to get out, we need to change the context of our mind in order to get unstuck regarding that project. So moving your location, moving your body away, getting up from the computer and walking down the hallway is a way to get unstuck. And you may find yourself having a new idea on how to move forward in that project as a result. Or you might find some new energy, some new courage, some new joy in doing that project or a new perspective. Literally by changing yourself in terms of your body and your location, you oftentimes change your perspective. Let me give you a couple other ideas, okay? So first of all, like I said, moving your body away, I do this a lot when I'm trying to get a fresh idea, a fresh perspective. Another idea is to go outside, just step outside your home or your office and take some deep breaths. First start with some slow deep breaths, again, do this outside if you can, okay? Then after some slow deep breaths, take some fast deep breaths, okay? So by doing that, you kind of reinvigorate yourself. You will probably give yourself a new perspective when you come back and continue working on that project. Another idea is to set a timer for five minutes and write nonstop. And you can use, there's an online free timer called Egg Timer. The link is e.ggtimer.com. And once you go there, you can type in five minutes or you can just simply go to e.ggtimer.com slash five minutes and it'll just start a five minute timer for you. And it'll beep you after the five minutes are over so you better turn down your computer volume before you start the timer. So if you write nonstop for five minutes, I promise you, it'll give you a different perspective and you'll probably be unstuck as a result. Now, if that doesn't work, all right, then you may need a different method of brainstorming, okay? So if you've been trying to get unstuck by just writing something, then maybe you need to take out a piece of paper and draw out a solution to the problem. Or you need to create a mind map. There's a lot of free mind mapping software out there. My favorite one at the moment is MindMup, M-I-N-D-M-U-P, mindmup.com and start mind mapping the situation. For other people, what helps is to light a candle. So move your body, go to the kitchen or go to where you can find a candle or find some incense, okay? Light it and see if that helps. Other people like using an essential oil or some kind of aromatherapy to help get them out of their mental loop or maybe you just need a nap. Sometimes you're stuck because you are simply tired, mentally tired or physically tired. You may need to go take a 15 minute nap. Even if you don't fall asleep, you're just laying down for 15 minutes relaxing, knowing that you are getting some rest or maybe you need to eat something. If it's been more than three hours since you've eaten something, maybe your blood sugar is low and you simply go need to eat hopefully a healthy snack, okay? So what you should not do when you're in a mental loop is doing any kind of addictive activity. So Facebook, playing games on your phone or surfing the web, looking at news or watching a TV show. Those things can be addicting and it can make you feel worse afterwards. So just be aware of that and don't do that and do one of the other things I've said earlier. Oh, one more thing is music. Music can help. Maybe you want to do a dance. Turn on some, if you can, if you work by yourself in a place where you can do this. Put on some of your favorite music and for five minutes do some dancing and that will almost always get you unstuck from a mental loop and you'll come back and have a fresh perspective. I'll give you one more example is the creator of the famous television series MacGyver. Remember MacGyver? MacGyver was a very creative person. He was able to solve problems in all kinds of creative ways. Well, the person who thought of all these ideas, the creator behind MacGyver, you know how he came out with many of his ideas? He would ask himself the question that, you know, how do I, how would MacGyver solve this problem in a situation? And you know what he would go do? He would go home from his office. So literally physically move his body and he would take a shower. So this is for a particular challenging problem. He would go and take a shower. After taking a shower, he would come back and almost always he would write the question again on the piece of paper or something. And he would almost always have a fresh perspective and usually a great answer to what the challenge is by going and taking a shower. OK, nowadays what I hear actually I should say an alternative that he decided that he discovered showering is for bigger problems, a small for smaller challenges. What he'll do is he'll again, he'll write down the question or the problem and then he'll play with a game like a not a not an online game, which can be addictive, but like a physical, some kind of physical. Actually it was building some kind of model like a model airplane or a model playing with some something with his hands, some kind of fun thing with his hands. And after doing that, he would come back to the challenge or the issue and almost certainly he would have a new idea that would get him unstuck. So see, so you may find that to be helpful to try as well. But the idea again is to get unstuck, move your body and get out of that mental loop. So I hope this is helpful. If you have other, if you have an example that has helped you to get unstuck, I welcome you to comment below or if you have any other ideas that you might want to share with others, feel free to comment below as well.