Is it time to pause and align your business with what matters to you? On today’s episode of The Road to Seven podcast I’m speaking with Rachael O’Meara, a transformational leadership and executive coach who supports others as they seek to fulfil their potential. She’s a sales executive at Google and author of Pause: Harnessing the Life-Changing Power of Giving Yourself a Break. Rachael says a pause is an intentional shift in behaviour that helps you lead a more meaningful and satisfying life.

Takeaways

• We often operate our business from a position of survival or burnout but our peak performance is sitting on the other side of the road
• The only way we can get into a place of peak performance is through renewal
• Five signs you know you need a pause: you used to love what you do now you loathe it, your boss tells you it’s not working out, you need a technology intervention, there is a challenge, there is an opportunity
• Not knowing what to do next in your business? It might be time to pause
• Pausing is in service to the doing