Hey y’all! Brooke Benevento here with the” Hi, it's me. I’m the problem podcast!”

I am so excited that you have decided to spend the next 10 min with me. My intention for this podcast is to inspire others to live a life worth living. My greatest hope is that when you tune in to listen to these podcasts, you feel a little better than you did before you pushed play.

I named this podcast “Hi, it's me! I’m the problem” because when I heard those lyrics for the first time by Taylor Swift, something shifted inside of me, and I knew then that I was the problem. I realized that if I wanted my life to be different, I would have to take responsibility for myself and my actions and that it was time to make a serious transformation within myself.

The first part of my transformation started with becoming Certified through the Think and Grow Rich Institute, and with my mentor's help, I transformed my life. Now, here I sit, a completely different woman, ready to share what I’ve learned with the world.

So, with all that said, let's get into today’s topic.

Today, I want to talk about feeling stuck. I spent 20 years feeling stuck. And While I was stuck, I thought I was the only woman in the world who felt like this. I mean, every other woman around me seemed to have it all together. Not until I started coaching women did I realize that this feeling wasn’t just me…a lot of women were feeling stuck.

Before we get into it Let’s first clarify what the definition of the word stuck means.

Stuck is being trapped and unable to move or make progress.

Yup, that sounds about right, doesn’t it?

But if we break this down a little bit further, we can see that it is most likely not our body that is keeping us trapped and unable to move or make progress, but that it is rather our mind that keeps us trapped.

And what does our mind hold? Yup, you guessed it, our thoughts. Have you ever heard the saying thoughts become things? So, in other words, our dominant thoughts and our dominant words become our materialized reality.

And Because you can't actually feel any emotion or speak any words without first thinking a thought…this means that if we were to write the definition of “feeling stuck” I think we could all agree that it would sound something like this.

I feel stuck because I have thoughts that make me feel trapped and unable to move or make progress and I confirm this with using the words “I feel Stuck”

Let me say it again in case you missed it.

I feel stuck because I have thoughts that make me feewl trapped and unable to move or make progress and I confirm this with using the words “I feel stuck.”

Wow…doesn’t that give you a better perspective of what’s going on when you say I’m feeling stuck?

So, the key is if we change our thoughts and our words, we can then get unstuck!

Alright, so let's talk about how we can change our thoughts to help us get out of feeling stuck.

1. First, we must become aware that what we are saying and the words we are using are materializing in our reality. If we want to get unstuck we have to change the thoughts and the words.

2. You only believe that you are stuck because you have had the same thought and spoken the same words, “I feel stuck” on repeat over and over and over again, and now you have grown to believe that you are stuck. When, in fact, you are not stuck. You just have to change your thoughts. So instead of having “I am feeling stuck” on repeat” Put “I know what I want” on repeat instead. It’s obvious that what you