Have you ever gotten your car stuck in the mud? Your first instinct is to put your foot on the gas and get the heck out. If you are lucky, this might work but more often than not, it only makes the situation worse. The tires spin and spin but the car doesn’t move, and you end up digging a rut that gets deeper and deeper.
When stuck in a figurative rut, you just keep spinning your wheels, unable to make the changes necessary to get things moving in a positive direction. Often, the problem is that we think we need to make radical changes to get out of the rut and this scares the bejeebers out of us.
