Hamster wheels have fascinated me my whole life. They are a metaphor for doing the same routine over and over and seeming to never make any progress. Remember the Peter Principle? Rising to your highest level of incompetence, maybe getting promoted one more time and then

                       YOU ARE STUCK.

In real estate, one key hamster wheel is the 24 /7 Realtor. I hope I never go there and forget balance and to have a life. Buyers can be on hamster wheels looking at houses ad nausem and never buying. Sellers can be little hamster wheels too with Days On Market that defy good judgment in hiring a Stager, a maintenance man or getting REAL on price.

In corporate life, a worker can get in a rut and after ten years on the job just burns out and says there has to more to this life than just pushing paper. Time to let the hair down, hit the road on the Harley and drive to Yellowstone and see Old Faithful. We are smarter than hamsters and need to get off these wheels.

Yes, life may come full circle on us and seeing the same lesson presented to you AGAIN. Maybe you didn't learn it yet. But life should be about LEARNING, and GROWING. Thriving, not just existing. Sometimes we get on hamster wheels cause we build traps for ourselves with our education, where we live, whom we associate with, and our financial situation. Some who have dedicated later portions of their lives to taking care of ill spouses or children or parents know they are on a hamster wheel and know this is a phase of their life for sacrifice. They will eventually do something else.

Know that while we all can paint ourselves into a corner and get stuck we can change. It just takes one baby step in a different direction each day to get out of the rut. You must first decide, and then have the will to act.

There's a story about the Mama bird and the baby bird on the branch way up high in  the tree. The Mama bird keeps pecking on the baby birds feet until it hurts so much the baby bird FINALLY leaps off the branch and flies. We have to find motivation within to fly. I'm trying to give you a boost here with thinking about it. You know you are an eagle who wants to soar. Fly out of that nest and be the best version of you that the world needs to see each and every day. I'll be cheering you on as you soar!

                                          FLY LIKE AN EAGLE