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Growth Instigators Hotline
#485 A Couch: Just sit on it
What if your best next move is to sit still for a moment? We explore how a simple couch can reset your approach to leadership and life by turning urgency into clarity and pressure into perspective. Through practical stories and a powerful twenty‑year question, we separate signal from noise and show why slowing down often speeds up your results.
We start by reframing the couch as a tool for strategy rather than escape: a space to pause, breathe, and let the story evolve before you commit resources. From there, we walk through everyday decisions that feel urgent—like office locations or gear upgrades—and test them against long‑term impact. You’ll learn how incubation sharpens judgment, why short waits create stronger choices, and how to define a minimum decision window so you don’t default to impulse. The payoff is confidence: once you’ve let ideas brew, you can move in one direction without second‑guessing.
Along the way, we unpack the cultural ripple effects of a leader who embraces stillness. Calm at the top reduces reactivity, stabilizes priorities, and improves execution across teams. We share simple prompts you can use today: write the decision on one page, list three risks if you’re wrong, define the trigger that would change your mind, and ask what will matter in two decades. These habits train your attention on durable value—people, customers, cash, and trust—while trimming the noise that burns time and energy.
If you’re ready to trade frantic motion for focused progress, press play and try the couch method this week. And if you want a partner to help you slow down so you can speed up, reach out: Your life is too valuable to just coast along. Subscribe, share this with a leader who needs a pause, and leave a review telling us where you’ll apply the twenty‑year rule next.
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Welcome to message 485 of the Growth Instigators Hotline where we examine an everyday normal object and assign it a deeper meaning. I'm Aaron Havens, your host and growth coach. What can a couch remind us of today? Alright, a couch. Let's take the most obvious lesson from a couch. This is a place to sit. This is a place to not move. This is a place to just exist. Where in your life for leadership should you just sit? Be patient. Let the story evolve. My grandpa used to say, What is this going to mean 20 years from now? So true. What we spend a lot of our time doing, will it really matter 20 years from now? Whether my office is located in the center of my town or on the west side of my town, whether we buy a new truck or keep the used one. I mean, let's be real. I won't even be leading my company 20 years from now, the one I started. So where in your life and leadership do you need to slow down? Just sit on something, let the story evolve. Spend time not moving. Life is not a sprint. You have to consider what your next best move is. And then once you've made a decision, you'll be confident in the direction in that direction because you've let it percolate, brew. You've sat on it. So sit and brew. You'll know what to do when it's time. If you need help being still in your life and leadership, I can help. Your life is too valuable to just coast along. Sometimes we just need another set of ears or eyes on something to help growth happen. Shoot me a text or send me an email at Aaron at growth instigators.com if that is you. Here's to letting the story evolve. Here's to your growth. Thank you for tuning in today. You can listen to any of our past podcasts wherever you get your podcasts. Join us next week as we exe examine leadership lessons from gasoline. Haha. Talk to you soon.