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“Think laterally to understand where irrational thinking creates bad behavior and confuses the mind.”
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“Think about only one thing and you're in a tunnel. Think about everything and you're on an open stretch of road.”
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“After John鈥檚 arrest, I felt like I had no time to Pause and Think. I just needed to Act. Call back the lawyer, get interviewed by the detectives, find a divorce attorney, figure out who was going to pick up the girls, cancel my conference call, monitor the news, clean up the disaster from the police search, remember to feed the girls, remember to feed myself, remember to sleep, try to get my confiscated computers back from the police, remember to breathe . . .
But as someone who is no stranger to working too hard, I reminded myself that if I kept Acting without Pausing and Thinking, I鈥檇 only end up in more of a mess. I鈥檇 learned that the hard way, and those painful lessons served as the backdrop for developing this model. When I was going into that climb, I was lucky that I had a strong Thoughtfully Fit core. And that core got me to the top of the mountain.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
But as someone who is no stranger to working too hard, I reminded myself that if I kept Acting without Pausing and Thinking, I鈥檇 only end up in more of a mess. I鈥檇 learned that the hard way, and those painful lessons served as the backdrop for developing this model. When I was going into that climb, I was lucky that I had a strong Thoughtfully Fit core. And that core got me to the top of the mountain.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“The key is to do all three steps in order. And repeat as necessary.
When you encounter a hurdle, Pause.
Give yourself time to Think:
What do I control? What are my choices?
After you choose your response, Act . . . thoughtfully.
Acting without Thinking isn鈥檛 good, but Thinking without Acting isn鈥檛 much better.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
When you encounter a hurdle, Pause.
Give yourself time to Think:
What do I control? What are my choices?
After you choose your response, Act . . . thoughtfully.
Acting without Thinking isn鈥檛 good, but Thinking without Acting isn鈥檛 much better.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“If you think the USA is the 鈥楪reatest Nation On Earth鈥, you probably have not traveled the world.”
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“Always return to engaging your core, because you鈥檒l need a strong core for all six Thoughtfully Fit practices. I鈥檒l give you a strategy to build your core confidence, which you can use in any situation. It鈥檚 deceptively simple in concept and powerful in practice.
The core of being Thoughtfully Fit is three steps: Pause. Think. Act”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
The core of being Thoughtfully Fit is three steps: Pause. Think. Act”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Agility is about handling the curveballs life pitches at us. It鈥檚 being able to respond quickly when you鈥檙e caught off guard. When you engage your core to Pause and Think, you can Act by responding thoughtfully when you鈥檙e blindsided, instead of reacting instinctually.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“I watched the squirrels play today. And it seemed that they knew nothing other than to be what they were created to be. And with the space to think of nothing else, they could not have been anything more.”
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“You know about taking action. We all do a lot. Say a lot, type a lot, read a lot, scroll a lot. But the key to this third step in your Thoughtfully Fit core is to Act鈥攜ou guessed it鈥攖houghtfully. The goal is to Act with greater intention, following careful consideration鈥攖o have the action be a result of a more deliberative process, not your first instinct or knee-jerk reaction.
Whatever you decide to do might be hard, but as a result of the Pause and Think, you can have clarity and commitment. And, in some cases, the Act is intentionally not doing or saying something, but choosing to self-manage.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
Whatever you decide to do might be hard, but as a result of the Pause and Think, you can have clarity and commitment. And, in some cases, the Act is intentionally not doing or saying something, but choosing to self-manage.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“If you don鈥檛 think past your own thoughts, you will live a prisoner to your experience. And that can be a very small cell to live in.”
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“We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts and then think.”
― The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
― The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning
“Step one, look at the problem. Think. Relax.”
― Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring Climbers
― Why We Climb: The World's Most Inspiring Climbers

“Sometimes we plow through our days without really Thinking at all. We just Act unconsciously. On autopilot. Spinning and spinning and hoping we get lucky. However, jumping straight to Action isn鈥檛 always most effective. Taking the time to ask questions and Think is where the magic happens, because this process creates new awareness.
Thoughtful questions include, but aren鈥檛 limited to, the following:
鈥 What choices do I have?
鈥 What鈥檚 in my control?
鈥 What would a successful outcome look like?
鈥 What obstacles are getting in the way?
鈥 How can I address those obstacles?”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
Thoughtful questions include, but aren鈥檛 limited to, the following:
鈥 What choices do I have?
鈥 What鈥檚 in my control?
鈥 What would a successful outcome look like?
鈥 What obstacles are getting in the way?
鈥 How can I address those obstacles?”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“My daughter Josie was nine years old when she played basketball for the first time. She鈥檇 get the ball and hold it and pivot to the right, to the left, back to the right, but seemed paralyzed by indecision. She would think and think and think about what to do鈥攑ass or shoot鈥攂ut never act. At some point, you have to take the shot.
Where in your life do you pivot and pivot, but never take the shot?
Maybe you need to have a tough conversation, and you鈥檝e thought about it over and over again. You鈥檝e identified how to start the conversation, and you鈥檝e worked through all your talking points. But when you think you鈥檙e ready, you pivot. You decide that the situation isn鈥檛 so bad after all. You鈥檙e too afraid to have that conversation. What if I miss the shot? What if the ball is intercepted? What if the conversation doesn鈥檛 go well?
After you Pause and Think, you must Act. This is what will help you overcome obstacles and create the turning point. When you don鈥檛 Act, you don鈥檛 make progress.
Research on the highest-performing teams shows it鈥檚 better for leaders to make a decision and act quickly rather than wait until all circumstances are perfect.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
Where in your life do you pivot and pivot, but never take the shot?
Maybe you need to have a tough conversation, and you鈥檝e thought about it over and over again. You鈥檝e identified how to start the conversation, and you鈥檝e worked through all your talking points. But when you think you鈥檙e ready, you pivot. You decide that the situation isn鈥檛 so bad after all. You鈥檙e too afraid to have that conversation. What if I miss the shot? What if the ball is intercepted? What if the conversation doesn鈥檛 go well?
After you Pause and Think, you must Act. This is what will help you overcome obstacles and create the turning point. When you don鈥檛 Act, you don鈥檛 make progress.
Research on the highest-performing teams shows it鈥檚 better for leaders to make a decision and act quickly rather than wait until all circumstances are perfect.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“What do you do with this inner trash talk? Similar to athletes who deal with trash talk, you have to learn to focus on the task at hand, not the trash talk. Think about it. Do you ever see a visiting football player try to hush the home team鈥檚 crowd? Of course not鈥攊t鈥檚 not a productive use of energy. In the same way, trying to tell your inner voices to stop talking trash will only increase their volume.
Once you allow yourself to confront this trash talk head-on, you may start to see ways to move past it. It can be hard to be honest with yourself, but the Think part of engaging your core is key here. Ask yourself: Where do these thoughts and beliefs come from? How do they serve me? What would it look like to move past them?
This is the time to stop accepting all of your trash-talking thoughts as truth and discover new ways to move forward.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
Once you allow yourself to confront this trash talk head-on, you may start to see ways to move past it. It can be hard to be honest with yourself, but the Think part of engaging your core is key here. Ask yourself: Where do these thoughts and beliefs come from? How do they serve me? What would it look like to move past them?
This is the time to stop accepting all of your trash-talking thoughts as truth and discover new ways to move forward.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Popular books often draw a dichotomy between intuition and analysis鈥斺渂link鈥 versus 鈥渢hink鈥濃攁nd pick one or the other as the way to go. I am more of a thinker than a blinker, but blink-think is another false dichotomy. The choice isn鈥檛 either/or, it is how to blend them in evolving situations.”
― Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
― Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

“Let鈥檚 face it: we judge. We all do. It鈥檚 part of our humanity. We might never say anything aloud, but we judge, or at the least, we wish others would be different or act differently. Admit it: when you鈥檙e at the grocery store, are you secretly looking at someone else鈥檚 cart and thinking, Ooh, don鈥檛 you know diet soda will kill you? Gosh, that鈥檚 loaded with carbs.
When you experience or observe behavior you don鈥檛 like, Pause and Think by asking yourself: Is this in my control? Is this any of my business?
When it鈥檚 not your business and/or not in your control, you need to Act by practicing Flexibility.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
When you experience or observe behavior you don鈥檛 like, Pause and Think by asking yourself: Is this in my control? Is this any of my business?
When it鈥檚 not your business and/or not in your control, you need to Act by practicing Flexibility.”
― Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Don't live in the past, thinking about mistakes or changes you made. Think of your life as a book, move forward, close one chapter and open another. Learn from your mistakes, but focus on your future, not on your past.~JVS”
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“Praise yourself for taking risks and learning something new rather than for your successes; it will help you cope with failure. Try not to constantly compare yourself to others; it invites excessive competition. Allow time to think. Keep your expectations realistic. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself.”
― The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
― The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“0.00000001% of what鈥檚 happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works”
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