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Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths
Written by Timothy Butler
Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt
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About this audiobook
We all experience psychological impasse. This feeling of uncertainty about your next moves in life might come at predictable moments: the loss of a job, the end of a romance, an empty nest as your child heads for college, or the death of someone who has long helped you feel recognized, loved, and appreciated. It might also come at unpredictable moments: when the career of a lifetime somehow loses its juice, when you ache for intimacy but can't seem to find the right partner, when you find yourself longing to renew a sense of life's adventure.
Predictable or not, psychological impasse brings with it the sense of being stuck or paralyzed. At the office, you feel stale or unchallenged. In your personal life, you feel agitated, deflated, or downright bored. You know that something must change - and you're desperate to contribute at work, find a reinvigorated role in your family, and dive back into the current of your own life.
Though uncomfortable, impasse is necessary. It's the only place from which you can define a new vision for your life. Now business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler leverages more than 20 years of research to offer strategies for finding your way from impasse to renewed meaning - at work, at home, with colleagues, and with family. He shows you how to:
Recognize the state of psychological impasse and use it as a springboard to real change
Participate in exercises that activate your new life vision
Identify the activities, rewards, types of people, work cultures, and communities that will most likely satisfy you
Make choices that transform your new vision into reality
Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse and defining a meaningful path forward.
Predictable or not, psychological impasse brings with it the sense of being stuck or paralyzed. At the office, you feel stale or unchallenged. In your personal life, you feel agitated, deflated, or downright bored. You know that something must change - and you're desperate to contribute at work, find a reinvigorated role in your family, and dive back into the current of your own life.
Though uncomfortable, impasse is necessary. It's the only place from which you can define a new vision for your life. Now business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler leverages more than 20 years of research to offer strategies for finding your way from impasse to renewed meaning - at work, at home, with colleagues, and with family. He shows you how to:
Recognize the state of psychological impasse and use it as a springboard to real change
Participate in exercises that activate your new life vision
Identify the activities, rewards, types of people, work cultures, and communities that will most likely satisfy you
Make choices that transform your new vision into reality
Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse and defining a meaningful path forward.
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Reviews for Getting Unstuck
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Getting Unstuck (2007) by Timothy Butler has elements of business literature, self-help, and a slight bit of new-agey-ness, all things that would usually be a turnoff but I ended up enjoying and learning a lot by listening to this audiobook. I must disclose that I know the author personally and like and admire him so that could have definitely colored my perception. The book deals mainly with the idea of impasse, which Butler describes as a necessarry process of growth. The book and the exercises within serve the purpose of getting past impasse to the next phase in life.The book is definitely geared to the types of folk in business who may best be described as overachievers. There are a great number of case studies based on clients Butler has helped over the years. I was surprised how often dreams - as in sleepytime dreams - play a part in the subjects analysis of their own impasse.I only listened to this as an audiobook, which may have not been the best format since this is kind of a workbook with a number of exercises. I think I need to listen it to again and work through the exercises myself more carefully.