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title: "Stuck in a Rut? Things You Should Do Right Now!"
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# Stuck in a Rut? Things You Should Do Right Now!

Stuck in a rut? Stop it!

![](https://jimcarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/StuckinARut.jpeg)

Here’s a list of things you could and should be doing right now:

- study something new

- play more

- think “clear and present opportunities”

- be an optimist

- spend more time with visionaries

- don’t cling to your past

- be your own futurist

- think bigger

- banish inaction

- stop studying, start doing

- champion failure

- banish committees

- don’t make innovation special

- embrace fear

- don’t accept the status quote

- accept disruption

- reassess skills

- hire people you don’t like

- built your experiential capital

- make decisions

- take on more riskl

- challenge your assumptions

- blur your industry

- study new competitors

- think fast

- challenge your complacency

- dominate your inaction

- rely on your radar

- extend your thinking

- seek more science

- find more real disruptors to follow

- disrupt yourself

- cut through the noise to see

- seek more trends

- abandon useless trends

- ignore more hype

Get inspired. Start here.