Change becomes easier when staying the same finally scares you more.

Fear is not the enemy of change, it is the fuel, and the only real question is which direction it points. For most of a long stuck period, the frightening thing is the leap. Then one day you look at another five years of the same and that becomes the scarier picture. Nothing about the leap got safer. The comparison just changed.

Sit for a moment with the honest version of staying put, not the softened one. Picture this exact arrangement continuing for several more years, with nothing improving on its own. If that image unsettles you, you have found the motivation you were waiting to feel.