When your boss critiques your idea, spiraling into defensiveness kills your effectiveness. The REACT framework helps you pause and respond better: Recognize the trigger, Experience your body's reaction, become Aware of your habit, Choose differently, and Train the new response through practice.
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So your boss questions your idea. Old you, you spiral. You start defending your idea. You hold it close to your chest. You get angry, disappointed at what the boss said. And then you go into your defense mode where you say, "They don't understand." Then you feel angry at yourself because you think you screwed up. Maybe your idea was good, but you overreacted. You went into survival, mode, defending and over-explaining. Then you think about it all night. I should've, I could've said, or I could have done it a different way. If you replay that conversation all night, it's because you reacted without structure. Follow our REACT framework. Recognize your trigger. Experience what your body is feeling and let it run through your body all the way. Be aware of what your body is normally doing. Does it get Do you feel sad? Do you get excited? What happens? Be aware of that. Then you get to choose what you want that reaction to be instead. And lastly, you want to train that reaction by practicing that internally, hitting that trigger and reacting the new way you choose. You got to get the reps in, and that's the REACT framework. The new you, you'll pause, You'll ask one clarifying question to make sure what the boss is trying to say. You buy a little time to pause, calm, and be very curious about what the boss's comment meant. And at the end, you come out with a better solution or outcome, and everyone is happy. You think your reaction is a mindset? It's not. It's a sequence programmed in your body's autopilot to react. We practiced this Saturday. Reset, and we'll send you an invite.