Answer the following question: What are your “shutdown” triggers?
There are phrases, accusations, people, tones, blood sugar levels and attitudes that instantly turn us sour. Some of us completely shut down when our work is criticized, our judgment is questioned, we’re hungry, someone says “you have to,” or we feel judged. I’m not being generic here, there are specific things that enrage you, or close you off. What are they?
Our moms know our trigger points best because they learned to avoid them. (or manipulate them!) Their expertise in our shutdown triggers was somewhat sub-conscious, and they forgot to send us off to college with a list of these triggers. Unfortunately, we weren’t keen enough to understand ourselves, so there we went, off into the world without a hint about the things that instantly tip us off. It’s our job to uncover those shutdown triggers, and I suggest we hop on it quickly.
What could we accomplish if we weren’t on shutdown mode three times a day?
