How to Make Confident Decisions: 5 Journal Prompts To Stop Overthinking #beaguest, #collab, #findaguest, #podswap
Beyond Awareness (formerly Journal Entries) is for successful women in leadership and business who know exactly what they need to do but can’t make themselves do it.
You know you need to prioritize yourself, delegate more, set boundaries, stop bringing work home. You’ve tried therapy, coaching, retreats. You know the solution – but you either can’t follow through, or when you DO, it doesn’t stick.
Host Samantha Hawley helps business owners and executives earning $100k+ excavate the root beliefs underneath the execution gap. Why do you keep not doing the thing? Why doesn’t it feel better when you do? Using strategic journaling and emotional excavation, we go beyond awareness into why you’re actually stuck in the pattern.
This isn’t about more tactics or tips. This is about understanding why awareness isn’t enough and what actually needs to shift for you to change.
You’ll hear about: decision fatigue, why you can’t prioritize yourself, nervous system regulation, being present with your kids, root cause of overwhelm, why boundaries don’t stick, self-sabotage patterns, and how your internal state impacts everything.
Perfect for: Female CFOs, VPs, directors, executives, business owners, and women in leadership who are tired of knowing what’s wrong but not being able to change it.
You’re not doing everything yourself because you want to. You’re doing it because letting go feels risky.
You step in before things fall apart. You tell yourself it’s faster if you do it yourself. And somehow, you’re still the one carrying it all.
This episode builds on Part Two of the Beyond Awareness series.
Journal Prompts to Help You Stop Doing Everything Yourself
- Name one task at work you’re still doing even though someone else could handle it. Why are you really holding onto this? Not the surface reason. The honest one.
- Imagine you delegated this and it was done differently than you would do it. What do you believe would happen next? What is the worst-case outcome your mind is trying to prevent?
- If you weren’t the one checking, fixing, or holding everything together, who would you be?What would that mean about your value, your role, or how you’re seen?
- What would you need to believe about yourself, your work, or the people around you to let this go?What permission do you need to give yourself?
If something came up while you were writing, that’s the point. You didn’t need a better system. You found the belief running the pattern.
Work with me:
- Breakthrough Intensive – You already know you should slow down, delegate more, stop overcommitting & be emotionally present. So why can’t you? That’s what we figure out in 90 minutes + integration call 2 weeks later. Book your Breakthrough
- Exhale: Private Coaching – For women ready to do this work until it sticks and you can’t revert back. 4 open spots: Work with me
- Why do smart, capable women get trapped in overthinking loops even when they logically know what they should do?
- What are the three most common decision-making approaches that actually keep women stuck instead of creating clarity?
- Can you walk us through your Calm Mind Blueprint and why it cuts through mental noise when traditional journaling fails?
- What's the single most powerful journal prompt that has created breakthrough moments for your clients facing major life decisions?
- How can listeners tell the difference between fear-based hesitation and genuine intuition when making decisions?
They've tried the pros and cons lists, asking everyone for advice, and even traditional journaling, but they still feel frozen. These women are tired of feeling like they're living on autopilot, going through motions that look good on paper while feeling disconnected from their true desires.
They want to be more present with their families & feel more fulfilled in their careers. They're craving the confidence to trust themselves again and make decisions that actually align with who they're becoming rather than who they've been. They're ready for a simple, practical & sustainable method that cuts through their mental chatter + helps them access & trust their inner voice.
Calm Mind Blueprint (framework for busy women who crave peace & decisiveness but feel too overwhelmed to find it)
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