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Phase 03 · Individual · 3 min

Put down what you are carrying

Separate the work that is genuinely yours from the work the pattern makes you hold, before the hand-over conversation.

Before you press play

Have paper and pen next to you. You will write three things at the end.

Headphones help. Nothing is recorded.
  1. Settle. Longer exhale than inhale, twice.

    Hold 14 seconds

  2. Bring up the list of things you are carrying at work. Do not organise it.

    Hold 18 seconds

  3. Find one item you are holding because letting go feels risky, not because it needs you.

    Hold 20 seconds

  4. Notice what the pattern says would happen if you handed it over.

    Hold 18 seconds

  5. Now ask honestly: what would actually happen, and what would it cost to find out?

    Hold 20 seconds

  6. Open your eyes. Write one item to stop, one to hand over, one to finish.

    Hold 24 seconds

  7. The hand-over is not complete until a standard and a review date exist.

    Hold 6 seconds

These tracks are practice, not therapy, diagnosis or medical advice. If pressure is affecting your health, speak to a clinician.

Positive Intelligence®, the PQ® Score, and the Saboteur model are trademarks and the work of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass Performance, Inc. does not own them and claims no rights in them; Compass is an independent user of these licensed instruments. The Compass service is Mental Fitness™, and the reading, interpretation and commentary here are Compass's own.

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Positive Intelligence®, the PQ® Score, and the Saboteur model are trademarks and the work of Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, LLC. Compass Performance, Inc. does not own them and claims no rights in them; Compass is an independent user of these licensed instruments. The Compass service is Mental Fitness™, and the reading, interpretation and commentary here are Compass's own. No affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement by Shirzad Chamine or Positive Intelligence, LLC is implied.

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