THE BOOK
UNSTUCK
Find Clarity, Break Free, and Take Action
Are you working toward the life you want, or simply meeting everyone else’s expectations?
What keeps us stuck?
Feeling stuck can happen to anyone. It may be a demanding job, a relationship, financial obligations, a long-deferred goal, or simply a routine that has become so familiar you can no longer see another way forward.
In Unstuck, Norm Gustafson offers a practical framework for recognizing what is keeping you in place, questioning the beliefs and assumptions that reinforce those limits, and taking meaningful steps toward a more intentional life.
Drawing on more than forty years of experience in education, organizational development, consulting, and the study of human potential, Norm explores how we create and remain inside the “boxes” that limit our choices, and how awareness, reflection, and purposeful action can help us find a way out.
“…highly recommended reading for anyone who feels boxed in, trapped, or stuck in their life trajectory or options…”
MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
A roadmap for getting unstuck
Inspired by Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths, Unstuck offers four practical stages for moving from awareness to action.
1. See the trap clearly.
Recognize where you feel stuck, identify the “boxes” limiting your choices, and understand what remaining there is costing you.
2. Uncover the causes.
Examine the beliefs, assumptions, perceptions, habits, and decisions that may be reinforcing your limits.
3. Discover the possibility of transformation.
Replace unhelpful patterns with new beliefs, skills, conditions, and ways of seeing what is possible.
4. Take purposeful action.
Turn insight into decisions and practical steps that move you toward a life shaped more deliberately by your own priorities and values.
READ AN EXCERPT
Chapter One: Who Are You Working For?
The first step toward getting unstuck is recognizing where you are. Begin with Chapter One and a deceptively simple question: Whose dreams are you working to realize?
Unstuck
Book details
Title: Unstuck: Find Clarity, Break Free, and Take Action
Author: Norm Gustafson
Publisher: Current Words Publishing
Publication date: October 27, 2026
Paperback: $18.99
Pages: 286
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-957224-76-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-957224-78-7
LCCN: 2026950544
Find clarity. Break free. Take action.
Unstuck will be published October 27, 2026, by Current Words Publishing.
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27, 2026
