The Power of Pause: How Slowing Down Boosts Your Success

Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

Ben Kinney Training

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Chad Hyams and Bob Stewart delve into the benefits of taking a pause before making decisions. They explore how pausing can enhance clarity, emotional control, and problem-solving skills. Through engaging anecdotes and practical advice, they illustrate the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world to avoid impulsive actions. The episode discusses how incorporating reflective practices, like mindful breathing and intentional decision-making rituals, can lead to better outcomes. Ideal for those seeking to align daily actions with long-term goals and improve decision-making through considered reflection.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the WindMakey podcast. Chad Himes here. Bob, Stuart over there. Bob, how are you doing today?
0:14.7	Just happy to be here, Chad. Just happy to be here. We're happy to have you, Bob. And audience,
0:20.3	we're happy to have you as well. There're happy to have you as well there's so many
0:22.4	more adjectives we could use so much better than happy but bob happy's a really really good one bob
0:28.8	do you watch uh everything on streaming or do you still watch live television no i don't watch any
0:35.2	live television not even sporting events bob yeah yeah any live television. Not even sporting events, Bob.
0:38.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll watch sporting events. But honestly, I start, like, I might start watching it because I'm like, ooh, I'm excited for this game. But by the end, I've generally, because I got kids, right, we have dinner and I'm generally by the end, I'm not watching it live anymore right I've paused it I'm now when I come back I'm fast forward in
0:57.2	commercials I'm generally by the end, I'm not watching it live anymore, right? I've paused it. I'm now when I come back, I'm fast-forwarding commercials. I'm avoiding my phone because I don't want to know who won necessarily. And if my buddies are watching it in real time, they are texting me to tell me who won. So, no, I don't do much watching of like live anything. Isn't it, right?
1:11.9	Folks, I did not set Bob up for this,
1:14.0	yet he said exactly what I needed him to say in there.
1:16.6	When we are watching live television,
1:20.2	the only button that really works is pause.
1:23.7	Right?
1:24.4	You can't fast forward.
1:26.1	It's still happening, right? You've already watched it. You're not going back. All you can't fast forward it's still happening right you've already watched it you're not
1:29.3	going back all you can do is hit pause at that moment because you need a break you need it to stop
1:36.8	you need that moment and folks that's what we're going to cover for you today we're going to talk
1:43.6	about the power of pause although i don't mean it when we're going to cover for you today we're going to talk about the power of pause
1:46.4	although i don't mean it when we're talking live sports can i can i so i i don't know if
1:52.1	everybody had any similar experience because i don't know uh when i was a little kid jad we
1:58.0	didn't get a tv in my house until I was seven years old.
2:01.5	And it was this little tiny black and white thing, right?
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