When we pause to reflect on what we need to figure something out rather than getting stuck in what we are not able to accomplish, we tap into our inherent growth mindset, which is also how we build confidence. 

Can we talk about how we continue to grow by being committed to ourselves? By being committed to our own learning, knowing ourselves more deeply, and developing skills to grow through uncertainty and harness change, instead of just surviving it? 

Work is the place where we can unlock our human potential from the inside out, ––if we have the tools and a culture that believes people are the most important secret sauce.

How long have you been holding your breath, trying to deal with a turbulent sea by not rocking the boat? And yet we all know that work is not working for us, and taking more time off isn’t going to fix it either.

I always say self-care is a relationship we have with ourselves, and for that relationship to be a healthy one, we need to have healthy conversations with ourselves.

If we want to understand how to stay motivated and inspired truly, it's important to pause for just a little longer and listen inside, not to your yearnings, longings, and desires, but to the heart of the matter. Listen for just a little longer to connect to what you care about.

The faster you catch your thoughts on their way down the rabbit hole, the faster you can get your mind back to working better for you. That's mindfulness. What you do with your thoughts is self-care.

Whenever you find yourself flooded by overwhelm, take a pause and ask yourself: what this is for, who it is for, and why it matters (to them or you). Make sure you hone in on the purpose of solving the problem, not what will happen to you if you don’t. 

I think we need to recognize that facing challenges doesn't mean we are broken. We are not either broken or having it together. There's a whole messy middle called life that happens every single day.

When we are in the business of looking for trouble, we can easily become why-notters. We ask why something is not working instead of asking how we can make it work.

People, experiences, and beliefs about who we are and can be is all part of who we are becoming every single day. As we go through life our hopes and possibilities face our fears and losses. We build resilience as we grow through adversity and let ourselves be driven by what we care about.

The mindset of more, more, more, and never being, doing, or having enough is costing us our mental health. And we see it everywhere.

Speaking up to ask for what we need to support and succeed in our human advantage to do good work will sound like CARE: confidence, agility, resilience, and equity. When self-care and well-being are the foundation of reaching our goals, we all thrive together.

Taking responsibility is essential to harnessing change and growth, and sometimes we must let go of what we have to get what we want.

Emotions are what make us human. Suppressing emotions is unfair to our emotional intelligence, and having to hide how we feel instead of having a conversation that could further the understanding and bridge the divide, keeps us stuck in emotional insecurity.

These days the boundaries between work and life have blended and blurred because the physical space of work has moved to our devices and into our homes; however, the mental and emotional boundaries are the issue, not time and space. It's the worry we need to learn to work with.

Belonging is one of our core human needs and to feel that we matter, that we contribute and that we are cared about. This is an essential part of the mental health conversation at work, it's not just about the overwhelm from having too much on our to do list.

Every day, what we care about directs our choices, we just don’t see it when we are busy doing life. Every day, it’s who we are that makes us unique and it’s what we care about that drives us. And every day, our self-care is our connection that brings us back home to ourselves.

Many people say they don’t have time for self-care, I say they don’t have time not to. When you make self-care proactive and the foundation for doing your best work, staying on top of tasks and interacting better with the people you work with, it creates more time—because it’s how we spend time better and it’s how we achieve our goals without burning out.

Power‐Pausing is the essential tool that helps us access the growth mindset, where our thinking is constructive and we make better decisions.