I'm reposting one of my most favorite blog articles, ever. I remember, even when I was young, feeling rushed. Get up! Time to go! Hurry up! Faster!!! Everything was a competition involving speed. Eventually, I came to expect this pace as a normal part of being a productive human being. I rushed through in my thinking, conversations, and work of all kinds in favor of going faster so that I could move onto the next thing. Never once did speed have a positive affect on the quality of my life. Only in slowing down did I discover how much I had been missing all along!
It doesn't seem like it would be true.
It doesn't seem like slowing down would get more done.
But it does.
Every day I do it, I get more done.
Every day I experiment with slowing down I understand the tortoise and the hare.
If I'm doing the right thing, I can do it as slowly as I want, and my life will get better.
If I'm doing the wrong thing (caused by a stressed, rush-rush contaminated decision-making process) it doesn't matter how fast I go, I'm going to be even more STRESSED when I'm finished because it wasn't the wisest thing for me to be giving my time to.
And I know it, and it stresses me out to know it.
If I am on the wrong road, it doesn't matter how good I get at speeding down the road. It's the wrong road.
I need to remind myself of this: Slow down and win.
Take your sweet, gentle time and have this one conversation ahead of me be relaxed and warm so that the relationship I have becomes relaxed and warm.
Slow down.
E v e n s l o w e r t h a n t h a t.
There you go.
by Steve Chandler
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