It is not uncommon to feel like we have no choice.

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We can't do the one thing we want.

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And it reveals how limited our thinking is.

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Because it is rarely the truth.

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We think that we've looked at a million choices.

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Yet really we haven't.

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It can seem like there is no good choice at all.

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And that is often nothing more than a mis-perception.

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When we are under stress we see only limited choices.

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Yet there are usually many, many more choices than we realize.

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It all depends on what we focus on.

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Are we focusing on the fact that what we want is not an option?

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Or are we looking to find more options, more ways, more paths?

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Just because one or two ways are blocked does not mean that they all are.

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Perhaps we just haven't been creative enough or open enough to see something new?

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Maybe we just keep looking in the same direction when the real solution is to the right or left?

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If we can expand our view of things we can find more possibilities.

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Our mind easily closes off our internal vision from seeing new options.

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So we have to make an extra effort to stay open, to see things with new eyes, even if we have been staring at it for hours.

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It is not our eyes that trick us.

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It is our minds.

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When we believe that we have no choices, we don't.

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If we are always in the inquiry of "what else can be done?" we magically find new roads ahead of us.

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It is not Life that makes us stuck.

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It is our own stubbornness and our own habits.

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So perhaps we can cultivate a habit of being more open.

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A practice where we are constantly asking, "what else?"

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It may not open our eyes so quickly, yet with time and effort it can work wonders.

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So where do you feel stuck that you have not looked at all the options?

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What can you do to be more in the inquiry of what else is there?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant