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# 2.6 🎮 Let's Control the Flow — Pause & Stop
⏸️ **Let's Control Execution — Pause & Stop**
Sometimes you need your workflow to wait for a moment before continuing, or stop entirely based on a condition. That is exactly what the Sleep and Stop tools help you do.
**Step 1:** Add a Console step with any message — for example: Workflow Started.
**Step 2:** Add a Sleep tool. By default, the workflow pauses for 5 seconds when the Sleep tool is used. You can configure the number of seconds based on your requirement.
**Step 3:** Add another Console step with any message — for example: Workflow Resumed.
When you run this workflow, the console logs Step 1, pauses for the configured duration, and then logs Step 3.
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🛑 **Stopping a Workflow Mid-Execution**
The Stop tool lets you hard stop the workflow at any step during execution.
This is useful when a condition is not satisfied and continuing the workflow does not make sense. Simply add the Stop tool at the point in the workflow where you want execution to end.
#### 🎉 You have successfully controlled the flow in a workflow!
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