I’m updating for the first time in a long while. It seems like the days just get away from me sometimes and although I have all these great ideas to share, I just plain don’t have the time or energy to write them down. I don’t like being so busy like that but it seems to happen often. The feeling of being rushed and lacking energy that comes along with that keeps happening until I make a point to stop it. Isn’t that the way life is sometimes? You just keep going along with something until you get so tired of it that you have to make an intentional change to stop it.
Change has been a theme in my life the last several years and I’d like to think I have gotten used to it, if not even a little bit good at it. But the busy-ness, the everyday-ness has a way of being so normal that it keeps creeping up on me and keeps getting me stuck.
So today, if only for a few hours, I’m making a decision; I’m going to slow down. I’ve got a few hours before the kids come home from school and I’m off work early. I’m not going to go home and dive into cleaning the house or doing laundry. I’m not going to work on coaching/speaking stuff. I’m not going to think too much about anything. I’m just going to sit here at my favorite Starbucks, drink my favorite drink, and smile at the other people around me.
Although this long-overdue update is short and only about me doing nothing, I hope you won’t be disappointed. Instead, I hope it will provide an example of how sometimes that’s the best update you can give and the best decision you can make. Slow down! Take time to do nothing! Take care of yourself so you can go out there and take care of your family and friends.
What do you do to slow down?
