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Pause-the-Impulse Card Deck

Printable impulse pause cards — buy time between urge and action.

How to use it

  1. Print the card deck and cut the cards.
  2. Pick the card that fits the urge (spend, snack, reply, quit).
  3. Follow its pause ritual before acting.

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Print at 100% / Actual size and set margins to None. Turn on borderless printing if your printer offers it — the card is designed to bleed to the edge of the paper.

Preview — prints at exactly 3 × 5 in (76 × 127 mm).

Pause-the-Impulse Card Deck

Printable impulse pause cards — buy time between urge and action

  1. 1Print the card deck and cut the cards.
  2. 2Pick the card that fits the urge (spend, snack, reply, quit).
  3. 3Follow its pause ritual before acting.

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Cut along the dashed line. Check that your print dialog says 100 percent, not “Fit to page”.

You do not need to stop the impulse; you need 60 seconds of pause.

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