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"Understanding the concept of just-a-minute was a real life changer for me. It is a very powerful concept. Now at work, when people are limbering up for a meeting, I can just take a minute. By the time they are ready, I am ready as well. If I am going to make a phone call that’s going to be difficult to take just-a-minute before hand; and if we had a particularly difficult situation I’ll take it after.
To push my energy; to find a quite time; to make myself feel okay; to slow my breathing down; whatever I need to carry on that day which is so energising and so liberating - it helps me in making decisions properly and gives me the ability to make my day fruitful and increases my feeling of being in control. Mainly, I'm less worried about the consequences of the decisions I make because I feel I am ready and calm after making decisions properly.
When we had a storm last week, we lost the power for 11 hours. Even the back up generator had gone off. So we didn’t have lighting, heating, water and nothing in the kitchen and my shift ended up to 24 hrs. Generally we have to wait for things to develop. So even I had 2 minutes to sort myself out. When I left the prison it was 6.30 the next morning, having started 7.30 the previous morning. By recharging my battery now and then, for a few minutes, it had given the power for the tasks I needed to do.
So just a minute looks like a tiny thing to do, it is a tiny thing to do. That minute saves me to great extent. So there is no need to prepare anything - I can just grab the opportunity when it arises and take it. So for me its life changing and liberating without costing anything."
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