The Pause Library
Places to begin, and practices to return to.
A growing collection of free things: some for your business, some for your head, all of them short.
If You're Here About Your Business
Where Does Your Business Go Next?
Twelve statements, two scores: how unresolved the direction is, and how much would have to change to follow it.
Where Does Your Business Go Next?A free two-minute checkNotes on Pausing
Short pieces on the things owner-led businesses actually run into: decisions that keep getting rewritten, growth that costs more than it returns, trusting your own judgement when everyone has an opinion, and what to do when the answer is always more.
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If You're Here to Pause
The Spiral Shift®
A free five-minute creative practice
A pen, a sheet of paper, and five minutes on your own.
It softens mental noise, slows you down, and gives you a different angle on whatever you were chewing over. No artistic experience needed, and nothing to get right.
The Art of Pausing® App
Twelve emotional pathways, each with a guided pen-and-paper practice. Start with whatever you're actually feeling rather than what you think you should be.
Live on iPhone. Seven-day free trial.
Useful Questions
The things people ask before they get in touch: about the mentoring, the app, the retreats, and whether any of this requires you to be able to draw.
Visit the FAQReturn whenever you need to
A pause does not need to be complicated.
Sometimes it is five minutes with a pen.
Sometimes it is a useful question, or a thought that helps you see something differently.
The Pause Library is here as a place to begin and a place to return to.