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

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.