Summary: Every now and again we seem to get less out of the effort we put in. It happens with our health and fitness, in relationships and in careers. Is this natural? Normal? Does it happen more than you like? In this podcast Paul and Chris discuss how to recognise a plateau, what happens when they show up, plus provide three solid strategies for overcoming plateaus in any context. 1. Refresh Sometimes just a bit of variety, fun and mixing it up can be enough to challenge your status quo and motivate you to the next level of progress or fulfillment. 2. Re-engage It's easy to get stuck in a rut at times and lose sight of why you're there in the first place. Feelings of overwhelm by the amount of work to be done, burdened by the responsibilities, and perhaps even experiencing hopelessness that things will improve. In this case it can be very helpful to step back and reconnect with what you really want and why you want it. Paul and Chris share exactly how to do this. 3. Re-evaluate As creatures of habits we will quickly fall into a regular pattern or regular approach to trying to achieve what we want. We hit the same machines at the gym, manage a project in the same process or deal with our partners in the same way. However, those habits may be the exact reason why you're experiencing the plateau in the first place. Re-evaluating your approach, your process and your usual way of doing things can shed new light on your challenge and give you alternatives you hadn't thought of before. Listen to this podcast now and join the conversation with a comment below or on our Facebook page.
