You Know What You Want. So What’s Getting in the Way?
You can know what you want to change.
You can know what you need to do.
You can even make the plan.
And still find yourself hesitating, overthinking, starting and stopping, putting yourself last, or returning to the same familiar response.
That’s where the work begins.
The Interrupt Framework™ helps you recognize what’s happening between knowing what you want and consistently showing up for it.
Knowing Isn’t Always the Problem.
Sometimes you don’t need another piece of advice.
You already know you need to set the boundary.
You know you need to have the conversation.
You know you need to start.
You know you need to stop putting yourself last.
You know what you said you were going to do.
But knowing something and consistently doing it are two different things.
Instead of immediately asking:
“What’s wrong with me?”
The Interrupt Framework invites you to ask:
“What’s happening here?”
And then:
“What’s getting in the way?”
This work is about recognizing the pattern without confusing the pattern with who you are.
You are not the pattern. You are the person who can interrupt it.
Maybe You’ve Experienced This…
Starting and Stopping
You get excited about something, begin, lose momentum, and eventually find yourself starting over again.
Overthinking
You spend so much time considering the possibilities that making the actual decision becomes harder.
Hesitation
You know the next move but keep waiting for more certainty, confidence, information, or the “right” time.
Putting Yourself Last
Commitments to other people feel non-negotiable while commitments to yourself somehow keep getting moved.
Repeating Familiar Responses
You recognize afterward that you’ve responded to a situation in a familiar way, even when you wanted a different outcome.
Knowing Without Following Through
The information isn’t missing. The consistency is.
The goal isn’t to label yourself. It’s to become curious about what keeps happening.
Five Steps. One Different Way of Responding.
The same five-phase Interrupt Framework™ used in organizational work can also help individuals examine personal patterns.
Define
What do you want?
Get specific about the result, change, decision, or experience you actually want.
Discover
What’s stopping you?
Notice what’s happening when you don’t follow through, respond intentionally, or move toward what you said you wanted.
Diagnose
What’s it costing you?
Look beneath the repeated outcome. What keeps contributing to it? What circumstances, assumptions, behaviors, fears, habits, expectations, or responses may be involved? This is about understanding the pattern, not judging yourself for having one.
Disrupt
What are you going to do about it?
Create space between the familiar trigger and the familiar response.
Develop
What’s your next move?
Choose the action, behavior, boundary, conversation, or practice you want to reinforce moving forward.
PAUSE → OBSERVE → ASSESS
Pause: Create enough space to avoid immediately reacting.
Observe: Notice what’s happening without automatically acting on it.
Assess: Decide whether the response you’re about to choose supports the result you actually want.
The Personal Interrupt Diagnostic™
You don’t need another label. You need a clearer view of what’s happening.
The Personal Interrupt Diagnostic™ is designed to help you reflect on where the gap may be showing up between what you want and what you’re consistently doing.
Start Where You Are
Free Starting Point
The 3 Mistakes Keeping You in the Start-Stop Cycle
Free
A free resource designed to help you recognize common mistakes that can keep you repeatedly starting, stopping, and beginning again.
Next Step
Why You React the Way You Do
3-Part Audio Series · $17
A short audio experience focused on helping you become more aware of familiar reactions and begin recognizing what may be happening before the response becomes automatic.
Deeper Personal Development
Happiness Is My Baseline
$95
A deeper personal-development experience designed to support you in becoming more intentional about what you accept, choose, reinforce, and create in your life.
You Don’t Have to Become a Different Person.
The purpose of this work isn’t to create a perfect version of yourself who never hesitates, overthinks, reacts, or gets off track.
It’s to recognize what’s happening sooner. To create space before the automatic response. To understand whether what you’re doing is moving you toward or away from what you said you wanted. And to make your next move intentionally.
You are not the pattern. You are the person who can interrupt it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is The Interrupt Framework?
The Interrupt Framework™ is a five-phase process, Define, Discover, Diagnose, Disrupt, and Develop, designed to help identify what’s getting in the way of a desired result and create a more intentional way forward.
Is this therapy?
No. New Pattern Solutions provides personal-development, educational, coaching, and training resources. The Interrupt Framework is not psychotherapy, mental-health treatment, or a substitute for professional mental-health care.
Do I need to know what my pattern is before I start?
No. Recognizing what’s happening is part of the process. You don’t need to arrive with a label or explanation.
What if I already know what I need to do?
That’s exactly where this work can become useful. Sometimes the challenge isn’t knowing what to do. It’s understanding what’s happening between knowing and consistently doing.
Where should I start?
Start with the Personal Interrupt Diagnostic™ when available, or begin with the free resource, The 3 Mistakes Keeping You in the Start-Stop Cycle.
You Don’t Need More Judgment. You Need More Awareness.
You don’t have to solve everything today.
Start by understanding what’s happening.