Permission to Pause

RE|.

              “What?”  
              “Who?”
              The more colorful ones I can’t write.
              But all start a conversation that matters.

RE| isn’t my story. It’s everyone’s.
              Stops and starts.
              Wins and losses.
              Failures and Success.
And include everything in between.

RE| isn’t designed to “fix.” It’s not a band-aid or a “better way.” We are swamped with Top 10 lists, to-do’s, and “If you only do this one thing,”  posts every day.

I’m not a content creator.
RE| wasn’t born in a school.

 Instead, I spent over thirty years in corporate offices, leading teams across both operations and sales. Simply put, my life was boardrooms, conference calls, airports and home. And in the midst of it, I learned the importance of words.

Words matter.
Language leads.

We were taught, “Actions speak louder than words.” RE| is going to…

Suggest?
Imply?
Prove?

That is simply not the case.

And I learned it one morning after stops at a MinuteClinic and an Urgent Care only to be told they couldn’t help. I had to go to an ER because it wasn’t physical

It was mental.

I was number one in the country in my role at a Fortune 100 company. My wife and I were leaving for Japan in 13 weeks. My first grandchild was due in 7 months. I had everything to live for.

Yet I didn’t want to anymore.

Twelve weeks later, I finished my partial hospitalization. The diagnosis isn’t what matters. The fact I am better does. And so does RE|.

RE| was born between the front door of the hospital and my truck. It combined thousands of hours of leading meetings and watching language under pressure and twelve weeks learning:

People aren’t broken.
Their words and stories might be.

RE| sits at the intersection of both.

RE by itself?
It’s a simple prefix meaning “back” or “again.”
But it attaches only to verbs. Thousands of them.

And it’s our permission to pause before our next thought.  
Before the next word we hear or say.
Before our next action.
It even goes one step further…and allows us to repair if we made the wrong decision.

Permission.  Space. Freedom.
And suddenly—potential.

RE| isn’t a fix. It’s not the latest life hack. Not motivational hype.
Because there are some things that can’t be redone.

The good news, though?
Actions don’t speak louder than words.

They just reveal what the words had already decided.

RE| is permission.
Permission to pause.
Permission to Restart.  

My name is G. Scott, and I write about words. Join the conversation on my socials and website.

We do talk about tough topics for both work and home. If it gets too heavy or too much, please remember 988—the National Crisis Hotline—for immediate assistance anywhere in the U.S. to talk.