🧠Weekly MindSweep No. 178 | Curated Conversation | Discernment
June 2025
06/02/2025 - Week 178: Curated Conversation: Discernment
06/09/2025 - Week 179: Mind Your Business: Discernment
06/16/2025 - Week 180: Manage Your Mind: Discernment
06/23/2025 - No Curated Conversation, Weekly MindSweep, or Mindful Connections.
06/30/2025 - Week 181: What’s On My Mind: Discernment
Let’s sweep the brain…
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In the MindSweep this week:
Curated Conversation with curated GIF’s & puns (for your entertainment).
Jamie’s Second Brain Corner: Links to references. Need a map? I’ve got you!
What’s I’m Reading - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Collaborations with Terri Hamilton (Thursday) & Shannon Giordano and the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce
My face đź’ś and a link to schedule your free consultation.
When “I Don’t Know” Is the Smartest Answer in the Room
As creative entrepreneurs, we are flooded with opportunities to grow, scale, and “get visible.” Podcasts. Guest speaking. Panel events. Social Media. Collabs. Email list swaps.
All promising reach, growth, and most intoxicating of all, validation. [1]
But at some point, the swirl of opportunity starts to feel less like abundance and more like chaos in a glitter suit.
That’s where discernment steps in.
Or rather, it whispers in. Because discernment doesn’t shout.
That’s urgency.
That’s dopamine
That’s “Say yes before someone else takes it!” energy.
Discernment is the quiet voice behind all the noise, the one asking, “Is this actually mine to do?”
Discernment isn’t about who’s shouting. It’s about who’s aligned.
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🧠What Is Discernment?
Discernment is the ability to judge well. It’s your brain’s way of helping you make aligned, wise, and values-driven choices, especially when the stakes are high. The options are good but different, and the noise is loud.
It’s a dance between:
Your prefrontal cortex, which asks, “Does this make sense?”
Your insula, which wonders, “Does this feel right?”
Your anterior cingulate cortex, which checks for “Is there a better way?”
Discernment isn’t “I always know what to do.” It’s
“I know how to pause long enough to listen before I decide.”
🧠Why It Matters for Creative Entrepreneurs
You’re not just choosing between tasks. You’re choosing between versions of yourself. Every yes shapes your future work, partnerships, and well-being. And because creativity thrives on freedom and novelty, it’s easy to chase shiny objects.
Discernment is what separates the discerning visionary from the over committed idea chaser.
This week, let’s bring our awareness to discernment. See where you might be using your Default Mode Network to make decisions impulsively, when you pause for consideration, or where you decide from that inner knowing of what feels right for you and your business.
Try this before saying yes to anything new:
Step 1: Ask yourself: “Is this aligned with who I want to become?”
Step 2: Pause 90 seconds. Let your brain catch up with your body.
Step 3: Listen for whispers, not roars.
Discernment often hides in stillness.
🧠Final Reflection: The Power of the Pause
If you take nothing else from this week’s MindSweep, let it be this:
You don’t owe anyone an immediate yes.
Not your inbox.
Not your ambition.
Not even your inner perfectionist dressed as productivity.
In a world that rewards speed, discernment asks you to slow down. To listen in. To trust that your wisest choices won’t come from pressure, but from presence.
Because “I don’t know yet” isn’t indecision. It’s the beginning of aligned clarity.
The next time opportunity knocks in sequins and urgency? Don’t rush to the door.
đź’ś Take a breath.
đź’ś Check your brain.
đź’ś Check your body.
đź’ś Check your heart.
And then—only then—decide what’s truly yours to say yes to.
My questions for you this week :
When was the last time you made a decision that looked good on paper but didn’t feel right?
Who or what disrupts your discernment the most? Urgency? Praise? Comparison?
Reply and share with me!
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Because discernment is a skill—and it gets stronger with the right support.
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Jamie’s Second Brain Corner:
[1] Did you miss our month on Validation?
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What I’m reading
Demon Copperhead
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.
Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society.
Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story.
Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Find it where you browse for books.
Collaborations!
Join us NEXT Friday, June 6th, at the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce for this two-hour interactive business community experience.
We'll discuss ways to cultivate business through Sales, Marketing, and Communication methods that support relationship building, showing up authentically, and connecting deeper with colleagues and the people you serve.
9-11 am - Open discussion, community support, brainstorming ideas
Join me in meeting business owners in our community. You'll leave with new tools to help you make connections and build your business!
Free; Registration is required: REGISTRATION.
Mindful Connections
Connecting like-hearted entrepreneurs to build relationships, offering support, understanding their passions, and sharing their names in rooms of opportunity.
Join us Thursdays, 12-1 pm EST.
12:00 - Take 5—a guided meditation with Terri Hamilton of Positively Terri to ground your week with peace and focus.
12:05-1 pm Round-table Share
Who you are
The gifts you bring to the world
Who you serve
The answer to a Curated question to spark conversation.
FYI: We will NOT meet Thursday, 06/26/2025
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