We live in a world that is extremely fast paced and we’re constantly moving and changing and developing and as you get older you have more responsibilities and it can just seem like a lot and our fast paced environments can often influence our expectations of ourselves.

We often feel this sense of urgency to ‘make it’ - whatever making it means, this sense of urgency to express your greatness, to create this success for yourself and this urgency to just become and create something greater than you.

Urgency is great and it carries its own perks and can definitely be beneficial, but there is a lot of power in simply slowing down, I say simply but it can genuinely be one of the hardest things to do, to just slow down, reflect, focus and re-align and to just take it in and celebrate.

Slowing down is difficult because we often feel this weird pressure to succeed, and the urgency that a lot of us have is fuelled by comparing ourselves to others, feeling inadequate in our own lives so just simply not feeling like we are currently enough as who we are and with what we have, or I guess this fear that our dreams have an expiration date so this mindset of if I don’t make it now, ill never make it. I think we all need to take a moment and reflect what this urgency is fuelled by, is this urgency based on fear or is it based on something more productive?

Slowing down is so important it gives you a chance to enjoy clarity and a chance to re-align and a chance to go further. It’s like when people say life isn’t a race it’s a marathon, and in that marathon you don’t want to gas out by going too quickly and at a pace that becomes counterproductive. We have to let go of this narrative that more success, is better success, more achievements is better achievements, more doesn’t mean better, quantity has no relevance to quality, and instead of seeking to be more we have the chance to optimise and improve who we currently are and what we currently have, but when you’re rushing to create the next big thing you miss that opportunity because your mind isn’t focusing on what’s here in front of you right now but its focused on what’s to come. Slowing down gives you the opportunity to orientate yourself towards what is truly important and what actually matters, it allows you to regain control because you’re no longer working based on time but instead based on intentions, it allows you to glance at the bigger picture rather than having this set tunnel vision.

Our goals and dreams shouldn’t feel like a punishment and it shouldn’t be a reminder of everything that you are not but instead we should use those goals and dreams to uplift ourselves and remind ourselves that we are capable and worthy of greatness. Give yourself to breathe and re-align.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."

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