Self Improvement No Man's Land

Have you ever heard the expression that goes “You’re caught in no man's land”? It’s often used in sports when someone is caught out of position, and it basically means that you’ve found yourself in a spot where you’re set up for failure, often by mistake.

In ‘The Compound Effect’, Darren Hardy describes that "No Man's Land" for people seeking to improve their lives is “not being happy, but not being unhappy enough to do anything about it.”

You can sense how stuck someone would be in this state. No one wants to be unhappy, but it’s a level of unhappiness that doesn’t meet the threshold required to change it. The pain of the unhappiness isn’t enough to inspire action.

Life is meant to be full and new, but being in "No Man's Land" creates a life that is static, stale, uneventful, and dull. Where things are just good enough. And since there’s no real motivation to change, it leads to complacency, toleration, lost time and missed potential.

That’s why there are a few things we must always be doing in our self-improvement to avoid getting caught in "no man's land":

First, it’s always important to reconnect to what you want. The clarity of what you’re working toward, and how you envision things can change for the better, creates an underlying tension that generates motivation. Complacency comes up when you don’t want any different.

Second is to always be in dynamic action. As long as you’re taking action, you’re influencing your results. New actions create new results that you get to observe, learn from, and incorporate as feedback. You can’t stay stuck if you’re always in motion.

And third is to always surround yourself with ideas and people that remind you that more is possible. That give you hope and show you how abundant the world is. Keeping yourself in a positive environment will provide a constant encouragement to keep seeking better, for yourself, for others, and for the world. And the pursuit of that rewards you with meaning and fulfillment.

Getting unstuck, and removing yourself from being caught in "no man's land" just involves choosing to move. Doing one thing differently. And if you want to make your next move one that radically transforms your environment, and kicks you into gear with next level habits that give you the energy to constantly seek improvement, I’ve designed the 21 Day Super Habits Challenge to help you do exactly that.