# Ep. 93: Breaking Horses: 6 Signs That You're Micromanaging

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Podcast: [The Healthy Compulsive Project](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-healthy-compulsive-project-6461244)
Published: 2025-07-01T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

How do we know if we are micromanaging? If you constantly look over someone’s shoulder, give them detailed instructions, distrust them, and make mountains out of molehills, it will discourage creativity, diminish morale, and disrupt relationships. It may even lead to them ignoring you. It brings about the opposite of your desired effect. Productivity, responsibility and ingenuity all decrease. It's like trying to break a horse to train it. Instead we need to macromanage, to consider the larger picture of our values and priorities.

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