3 Principles Pauses: You Don’t Need To Finish The List

This short pause is for high-performing professionals and business owners who feel like they need to tick everything off their to-do list before they can rest. In this gentle reflection, you’ll explore how your sense of urgency is not coming from your tasks, but from a busy mind.

You’ll be guided to pause, breathe, and notice that clarity and calm do not need to be earned through productivity.

Transcript

You don't need to finish the list. Just take a breath. Breathe in and breathe out and pause. Notice that familiar urge to push through the to-do list so that you can feel okay. Now here's your reminder. A gentle reminder that overwhelm isn't solved by doing more. It's just a signal from your oh-so-clever body letting you know that you've got too much thinking. Perhaps thinking that says you need to do it all now. Perhaps thinking that says you're not enough if you don't. Just notice how often you try to earn rest or relief through productivity. That inner critic saying that you can never be enough. You can never be complete. You cannot rest until it is all done. I'm here to offer you an alternative. A breath. A breath deep down into your body. Right now. And a simple noticing of what's present in your body right now. You don't need to earn the right to pause. You can pause right now. Breathe in and breathe out and feel into your body. You can close your eyes if that makes sense to. Notice what emerges in the quiet. Notice what clarity comes. What your inner knowing has to say about all this. You don't need to finish the list. You can pause and rest and breathe right now.

Reviews

What a beautiful break from my overproductive thinking mind. I’ve always thought that if I get it done then I can rest only to overdo and burnout. Thank you for the message of pausing!