There are moments when doing less creates a better outcome than doing more.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Effort and improvement are not the same thing, and there are situations where added effort actively makes matters worse. The extra follow-up message, the additional edit, the third attempt to explain yourself: each one comes from wanting to help and each one adds noise to something that was resolving on its own. Restraint can be the more skilled move.

Before adding anything to a situation, ask whether the addition serves the outcome or your discomfort. If it is the second, try leaving it alone for a day. Notice what happens without your intervention. You will start to build a sense of which situations need your hand and which only need your absence.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where would doing less improve a situation you are managing?

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