For the person who heard themselves and thought, that wasn't quite me

1 real moment a week for the split second you react.

1 framework. 10 buttons. 3 rooms. 1 shared language.

It's 6pm. The question is reasonable. You've already answered it twice today, and this time your voice comes out at a volume you didn't choose.

By 11pm you're still going over it. That didn't feel like me.

You've had that thought before. You'll have it again on Thursday.

1 shared language.

That was the Volume button, and it presses on you. It isn't temper, and it isn't a character flaw. It's a pattern that starts faster than your thinking does.

The split second where it started has a name. We call that the Handover.

One real moment that happens daily.

3 rooms. Several moments move between them.

The Hours That Go Wrong

7am to drop off, or 6pm to bedtime, or both. The same stretch most days, and the voice you didn't choose to use.

The Room You Can't Leave

The conversation you can't get out of, with the sentence you didn't say still sitting unspoken.

The Meeting

Where a reaction costs you standing rather than a relationship, and everybody watched.

You already know which one is yours. You knew before you finished reading them.

What changes

  • You'll catch it at 6pm, instead of at 11pm.
  • You'll have a name for what happened, instead of a defence of it.
  • The morning run and the evening winddown stop being 2 unexplained meltdowns and start being the same pattern, named, at both ends of the day.
  • You'll watch it happen to somebody else and know exactly what you're looking at.
  • The people you work with, live with, and do life with get the same words you have, so what happened gets named instead of argued about.
  • When it does go wrong, the walk back is shorter.
  • Every week you get 1 sentence you can use that day, ready to be said in any of your real everyday moments.

Who's the voice behind the newsletter

Reham Nasr is the Developer of the Remote Control System™ and the Founder of Transform You Now.

She spent 25 years researching one question: “Why do capable, values-driven people act against their own judgement under pressure?”

What she noticed was that she was doing it herself, and so were her clients. At first everything pointed to the need for more willpower, more discipline, more healthy mindset. Every one of those answers arrived after the moment had already gone.

The problem was never effort. It was timing.

The answer was the Remote Control System™, the split second before you react. 1 framework sequence. 10 buttons: 6 press on you. 4 you press. 1 shared language.

The book and workbook bundle, Who Has Your Remote Control?, publishes 29 September.

What's in the newsletter

1 email. 1x a week. 3 minutes. Every issue is the same 4 parts, and the sameness is deliberate.

  • One real moment

    1 person. 1 room. 1 real moment.

  • Where it went

    The exact split second your response stopped being yours. The Handover.

  • What you wanted. What you actually needed.

    The difference between what you want and what you need. The Gap between them.

  • Which button, and the disguise it came in

    Your button turns up looking like something reasonable. That's why you haven't caught it often enough.

Once a week. 3 minutes to read. It's free. You can unsubscribe at any time in 2 clicks.

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1 email per week. 3 minutes. Free.

Why it's free

1 shared language is the aim.

If 2 or more people in the room have the same name for what button is being pressed, you experience something actually rare. A partner can say “I think my Volume button just got pressed”, and the room knows what that means, and nobody has to be accused of anything.

That's psychological safety in action. That is what 1 shared language buys you.

One noticed pattern at a time.

Questions

Do I need the book?

No. Naming what happened is free, and that's the whole of this email. The book and the workbook bundle are where you find what to do about the button being pressed.

Do I need to take the quiz first?

No. Nothing here assumes you've taken anything. Every word is explained the first time it's used, every week, because somebody is always reading their first one. If you'd rather know which button runs you before you start, the quiz is here. 3 minutes. 11 questions. Free.

Is this a personality test?

No. There's no score and no ranking. It names a pattern in motion. Patterns can change.

Will this make me calmer?

It won't make you pressure-proof. Nothing does, and anybody saying otherwise hasn't been in the room. What it gives you is earlier recognition, which is a smaller promise than most of what you've been handed, and one that holds.

How often does it arrive, and what does it cost?

Once a week, on a Tuesday. About 3 minutes to read. It's free, and you can unsubscribe at any time in 2 clicks.

Can I reply?

Yes. Every issue can be replied to, and the replies come to me. If something in one of them was your Tuesday as well, tell me. I read them.

It's for the split second before you react.

P.S. The next time it happens it'll happen at the usual speed. The difference a Tuesday makes isn't that the moment slows down. It's that you'll have a name for it while it's still going on.

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~Reham, Developer of the Remote Control System™

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