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There’s power in stepping away…
I’m not talking about quitting, running, or avoiding responsibility. I’m talking about the kind of step back that lets you breathe again. The kind that clears the fog so you can actually see what you are dealing with.
Most of us stay in it too long. We argue too long… we grind too long… we overthink too long (me!). We try to force clarity out of chaos.
I thought stepping away meant I was losing ground. That if I walked out of the room, closed the laptop, or put my phone down, I was somehow falling behind and failing. A few years ago, I was in the middle of building, rebuilding, and healing all at once. Business pressure. Ministry pressure. Family pressure. Personal growth. I felt like if I stopped moving, everything would collapse.
One night I hit a brick wall. I was completely frustrated and mildly short tempered. My mind wouldn’t shut off. I kept trying to solve this problem that clearly wasn’t going to be solved at midnight with adrenaline and ego driving this bus.
So I stepped away…
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I went outside with no phone, no music… just silence. I sat there so much longer than I wanted to. At first it felt a little unproductive. Then something shifted inside of me. My breathing got a little shorter. My thoughts stopped racing. The problem that felt so massive an hour earlier didn’t look so powerful anymore!
The emails were still there. The responsibilities were still there. But I stepped away and that changed how I handled everything the next morning.
Stepping away isn’t weakness. It’s emotional discipline. It’s knowing when your nervous system is lit up and your perspective is distorted. Trauma will tell you to react, ego will tell you to prove something, and fear will tell you to control everything.
Wisdom… will tell you to pause!
Some of the strongest decisions I have made came after I stepped back instead of pushing forward. Sometimes the breakthrough isn’t in doing more. It’s in creating space.
If you are overwhelmed right now… step away before you blow up. Step away before you send that message. Step away before you make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion.
The power isn’t always in the fight. Sometimes the power is in the pause.
That’s all for today!
Jeff
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