11 SIMPLE STEPS TO UNSTUCK

Many of us feel jaded about cooking the same meals week-in, week-out, or guilty about falling into the same TV and sofa trap most nights. And, in fact, research suggests that about 40 percent of the activities we do every day are performed in the same way each time. So, just how can we break out of a rut?

According to psychotherapist and mindfulness coach Belynder Walia, part of the reason we tend to fall into a similar routine each day is because this way of living offers the path of least resistance.

“Staying in ‘the rut’ is the easiest option as it requires very little effort,” she explains. “As people seem more exhausted than ever before, sometimes we simply don’t have the energy to do anything different. And so we find ourselves repeating these identical patterns every day.”