How to Get Out of a Funk (Even if You Feel Totally Stuck)
The first step in learning how to get out of a funk is understanding what a ‘funk’ is.
In short, being in a funk is an interpretation you’re making about your life and your circumstances. It probably goes something like this.
Almost every day, you have that little thought and inkling in the back of your mind that you could-possibly-maybe-eventually change your life. And then, when you don’t take any steps toward doing it that day, you add a little check to your ‘loss’ column.
The more you add to the loss column, the more you create inertia. Doing the wrong thing accrues a harsher penalty, faster, than doing the right thing. Fitness is a great microcosm for this — eating poorly is much more effective for gaining weight than eating healthy is for losing it.
You’ve probably experienced this before — you’ve been eating right and exercising for a while, but a lapse of a week or two seems to set you back disproportionately far. Eventually, inertia sets in when you stop working out for a long enough time. The longer you wait, the harder it gets, so you just quit.
This is what happens in life, too.
