574 - 3 Things to Do When You Can’t Change Your Circumstance

So you know you're really, truly stuck in something.

Like, the universe has put you here.

You're not getting out.

When you have tried everything you can to get out of it.

You know, you might be in a contract that you have to finish a project on that you are like, "This was a huge mistake." Or you might be in a house or you might be in a job or you might be in a career or whatever it is, a, a, a season of life, a season of this country, this season of America.

Like, you're like, "Can we just get to the next season? This is not fr- it's way better once you get past this first season." That kind of feeling, but it's your country.

Um, [laughs] that sort of thing.

You know you're stuck in that belly-of-the-whale moment as a creative hero that you are if you have tried everything you could try to get out of it and it's not changing.

And you probably have.

I have been in those circumstances so many times.

One circumstance that I tried everything that I freaking could to get out of was my chore as a young teen was mowing the lawn once a week, and I freaking hated it.

I hated mowing the lawn, and I tried everything I could to convince my parents to give this job to anybody else, any of my other siblings.

And I was probably 13 years old, um, 12, 13, 14 when they gave me this job.

P- probably about 12 is when I started mowing.

Had to mow, like, certain parts of the yard, and my older brother got to do the riding lawnmower, which definitely seemed more fun.

I had to do the push mower, and I just freaking hated it, man.

And I tried to do everything I could to get out of it.

I would even fake injuries, okay? I'm not proud of it, but I was just a kid.

I'd be like, "Oh, man, I pulled something going down that hill and lost control, and I just, gotta, you know, someone's else gonna have to take it from me this week." And [laughs] I just tried anything I could.

Nothing works.

Every week, it would come back around.

I'd be like, "Oh my gosh.

How am I gonna get out of this? How am I gonna push it back?" You know, get out of it for a few more days, 'cause it was just so freaking boring, and I tried everything to get out of it, but I could not change that circumstance.

I could not change what I had to do, and it wasn't until I realized that I could change how I did it that everything changed.

There was more than one way to mow the lawn, and I started to, uh, change up the, the order in which I mowed things.