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How To Get Yourself Unstuck
By someone who is currently stuck in his own mess.
Pacing around my apartment this morning, I breathed steadily as the other man I was talking to rambled on about internet speeds, young kids, and browsers. I figured the guy wanted to talk as I nodded along with the occasional “yeah” and other interjection about the problem I called in with the hopes of getting it addressed.
My internet bill is too high.
And after that conversation I was able to save….
About $20.
I have a general reluctance to call customer service for various reasons. I’m usually flustered, find these phone calls disrupt my overall plans for the day (even when I make a plan to call customer service), and my general comfortableness with sending emails and chatting online rather than over a phone.
But the biggest reason is that after working through all of that, the end result feels middling.
This has been the state of my life for some time now. Where I have some ideas to try out and things to be excited about, but nothing is really going anywhere. Even in the areas I’ve been working on for years.
Is this the end? Should I regress even further? Should I force myself to suffer more? Should I look for something else? Or…
