The pause is everything.*
Ryan Holiday

When we embrace flexible, renewable, and diverse approaches, we create actual progress.**
Seth Godin

Before you react,
Or respond, you may want to

pause.

Is this really what you want to
say
do
think
feel?

In the pause, there’s at least a
confirmation that this is best, but,
More likely,
There’s a better
word
action
idea
emotion.

We get to choose,
That’s the point of the pause,
And we all have it, though
it must be used and trained^ to
become the power for life that
it can be.

*Ryan Holiday’s Discipline is Destiny;
*Seth Godin’s blog: Strength through resilience;
^We may explore practising silence, stillness, detachment, and noticing as immediate responses, stretching the space between stimulus and response.