Stop running on survival mode! Use the practice of pausing to connect with yourself.

For one, we need to stop running on survival mode because that is our social construct. Our social construct says, work harder, do more, run faster, hustle more, and you will achieve. But it's not really sustainable, and it's not really necessarily how we achieve what it is we're trying to achieve. So that pause can have us stop for a moment and pause and say, is this really what I'm trying to achieve? Is this really where I'm trying to go? That way we can redirect ourselves as we go along. And so a lot of times that's what the pause is really for, is to connect with ourselves. But I talk about 3 pauses. I talk about the physical pause, which is really just calming our nervous system down. And we need to pause to be able to actually connect with ourselves, engage with others, communicate with some sense of intention, and then collaborate and make more constructive, creative, and innovative solutions to the problems that we are trying to solve. The 3 pauses that moves from a me mindset to an us mindset, and then to