Pause
Your brain wakes you up by secreting hormones aimed at elevating your heart rate and boosting your wakefulness.
From the moment you get up, your body is orienting you towards movement, focus, and action.
This is still true if that action is hitting the snooze button.
This also means that the premise of a pause is counterproductive to your brain’s desire to act.
Pausing, according to your mind, is the opposite of moving forward; your brain dreads stagnation.
There is a heuristic at play that needs to be challenged.
Your mind equates pausing to an absence of action.
Pausing is not the absence of an act.
It is the act of opposing another act, if only for a moment.
Pausing, itself, is action.
Pause today.
It may give your brain just enough time to reappraise an unconscious decision.
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