I need to interrupt our regular scheduled scavenger hunt to ask you a question:

Ever get in a rut?

I had a conversation with my husband the other day which ended up more of a rant and whine session over the business and the direction it’s going. Nothing bad, but just one of those days where you second guess every step you take. And when I start to feel down on myself I look at the many books I have lying around or peruse the informational blogs I follow and I started to notice a trend. Each asked “What’s your mission statement?” “What’s your sole purpose of doing what you do?” And for the life of me I could not get past those words.

So there I sat wondering what’s my mission in my life, my business, and even my blog? And I’m left with no concrete answers…yet. So I try to move on to the next question which was: Where do you see yourself in 1, 2, 5 years from now? Well crap! That answer is a direct result from the first, which is “what’s my mission?”

I now am constantly thinking of where do I want to be years from now? How do I want to intertwine my business with my life goal? Because Megan, author of Craft MBA, said it perfectly that you can’t be a huge corporation working part-time. This doesn’t mean I go back on what I said before about moving my business forward as I am, but just stuck. The creativity isn’t flowing. The ideas aren’t generating. Everything is just at a standstill.

Do you ever get like this, where you second guess everything you do, and need that little push to get you out of that rut? How do you handle it? Let’s talk.