“Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed how much more life she had time for.”
People keep asking me when I will finally slow down, I keep saying “soon.” I said November would be that month, then surely December, January has been nothing but crazy… so maybe February? With no immediate date in mind beyond the fact that I have been saying the slow down would begin months ago. To be entirely honest, I feel more busy lately: tying up loose ends, booking for 2015, putting together things for this years clients, accounting, marketing, blogging, emailing… the list feels never ending and my energy seems hard to find. I once wrote a post about the glorification of busy and I cringed as I re-read the words I so thoughtfully wrote and meant. I need to eat those words and listen to my own advice. I need to make time to slow down, I need to stop filling every minute of every day with work.
Life won’t slow down unless I allow it to, unless I intentionally make a change with my time, therefore I am really truly going to focus on sticking to a set work schedule in the upcoming weeks and disconnecting when it is time to disconnect. (i.e. not writing blog posts at 8:23 PM like I am doing riiiiighhhtt now.) Although I have been better at spontaneous coffee and brunch dates, I still find myself scrolling through emails late at night, blogging at the oddest hours, and pinning away onto inspiration boards that I never ever look at again. I tell myself I want less time spent staring at a screen and more time simply doing or being but every time I close my computer I find myself needing something and opening it up again only to get lost for another hour of the day.
So, to start this slow down we are heading up north to a cabin in the woods for the weekend with a few of Drew’s high school buddies and their ladies. We are going to play cards, sip wine, enjoy the lake, grill food, make waffles and slow the heck down. No one can make this slow down happen but me, so this seems like a great way to get the ball rolling in the slow direction. I hope that if you are like me and struggling with glorifying the busyness this world thinks we must have in order to be successful, I pray that you will try to slow down a bit. To sip your coffee without streaming your Instagram feeds, to kiss your spouse before you grab your phone in the morning, to stop email notifications from making your phone vibrate, to sit and just be. So cheers to an attempt at slowing life down a bit, we are the only ones who can make this a reality in our lives. Ready? Go!
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