“Our negative bias, which keeps us safe and minimises risk, unfortunately keeps us stuck. To change something in your life you have to start somewhere. Tiny habits puts you over the line towards change, all you have to do is keep looking forward, don’t take a step back, do small achievable steps and you’ll start to create the shift”.

This is a temporary situation. Take some sensible action now to give yourself space to think and breathe. Trust yourself. You will find a solution. You’ve got this.

Books can change your life. If you were to spend an hour of time with the author it would cost you a whole lot more than the £9.99 you’ve just spent on their 80,000 words of wisdom. So if all that knowledge and wisdom is out there, why is it still so hard to act? Because we have to know what to do with it. Because we have to believe we can do something with it. Because we have to do something with it. We have to. No-one else.

So read the books. Listen to the webinars. Get people around you to support you all the way. And then take action. Do what the book says. Follow the action. And keep going. Always.

Guest blog by Anonymous contributor. “There are three things I didn’t know when being made redundant that I’ve not heard anyone talk about. There are more than three things I didn’t know clearly, but my point is that these are three things I never heard anyone mention. The first two are lighter, maybe contemporary topics. The third one is a more anxious issue.”

There are some jobs that people just don’t want to find themselves having to work with. But how reassuring to know that if you ever need that help, it’s here, maybe not wearing a cape and flying through the sky, but here.

Too much stuff, too much busyness, too much ‘to-do-list-itous’ is not the same as being productive. The feeling of having ‘a lot on’ is not the same as making progress. And when you finish each day exhausted but you still feel like you haven’t achieved anything, then stuckness sets in.

Most cliche givers means well. Their advice is drawn from set pieces, well-trodden paths, and as Russell Brand says ‘things that people say when they cant think quick enough to say anything else’. It’s painful to hear because it doesn’t feel its offering much. Cliches carry little comfort, wisdom or advice. And often cliches are totally untrue, or at least the sentiment is not true.

From dreading doing my accounts, to planning 2019, to launching an online course on how to launch a product based business! My tax return turned out to be a lot more pleasurable than I’d imaged!

What are you supposed to do, because although you are not physically constrained, you are released back into the world, on full pay but you aren’t completely free. You can be called back to work at any time. You definitely can’t start another job, and you really shouldn’t be talking to competitors. So all you can really be doing is… gardening. If you have one.

So you got made redundant. You went on a wild search to find another job. You found another job. You took that job. It’s now 6 months later and you aren’t feeling great. It’s time to break up with the Rebound job.

What happens when your company goes out of business? You start the job hunt. You sign on at the local job centre and get recommendations for hotel and restaurant work. There are jobs out there, your skill is needed. But what if there were even more options, in fact options that might change your life and the way you work?