Feeling Rushed to Make a Decision? A Brave Pause Gets Your Power Back

Ever felt the pressure to respond immediately?

I have.

Like, every day.

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One of my husband's favorite lyrics is:

"In the heat of the argument, I got tricked into knowing how I felt." --Dawes

Hypothetically speaking of course, he JUST might have felt pressure to answer during a heated discussions.

Who me? Fast-moving? Demanding? Impatient? I don't know what you're talking about.....

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But seriously......the SPEED OF OUR OWN REPLY is something WE HAVE POWER OVER.

We get to decide when and how we respond. To everything.

--A business proposal.

--A request for a ride to the airport.

--A negotiation for a discount.

--A business idea.

--A later checkout at our AirBnB.

--A date.

--Sex.

Strangely, I'm VERY comfortable saying "Not sure yet...." or "We'll see" to my child, but when it comes to adults, not so much.

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I'm grateful to live in Colorado, where people ALMOST NEVER honk at you if you don't BOLT the second the light turns green.

But I know this is a more common practice in other regions....

YEP--to make matters more difficult, society is ridiculously unsupportive. Our cultural conditioning is always feeding us subliminal messages like:

--People are in a hurry.

--You snooze, you lose.

--This deal will only be good for so long.

--The time to act is now.

--Attention spans are shorter all the time--better make a decision.

--You move too slowly.

--Stop being a bottleneck.

--Everyone's waiting on you!

Sometimes we let people, situations and issues take away our power.

So, apart from ********breathing and feeling into our body and closing our eyes and taking a time-out****** (all stuff we read about every day, and I believe works, yet have a hard time implementing) how DO WE TAKE BACK our power?

I don't fu*king know. Just kidding. ;-)

First we get brave. (You probably saw that coming.)

Then we give ourselves PERMISSION to say something like:

--"I'll get back to you next week."

--"I'd like to know more about it before making a decision."

--I'll need a couple days to process this. Look for an email by Monday.

--"I don't know right now."

--"Let me breathe into that and call you in the morning."

--"I don't know, so I guess for now it's a NO."

--Nothing at all.

I double-dog dare you to try it today.

Think this is bulls**t or pure bliss? Please tell me why in the comments!

I'm in the business of transformation.

I help people Surrender (to their calling) Reveal (their messaging) and Rise (to their truth).

And I'm practicing allowing more space between sentences.

Muggles need not apply.

Meow.

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