Leading with Clarity: Why Slowing Down Speeds You Up

Whenever I return from a busy trip or a busy couple weeks with work, it always takes me some time to settle back down.

I notice my thoughts are whirling around on repeat, sort of like a hamster wheel with no end, and it leads me to feeling restless.

And so I run around my outer world trying to ‘catch up’ on life so that things can get back to normal.

?I catch up on emails, work, laundry, errands, cleaning the house, etc. But no matter how much I catch up on tasks in my outer world, my inner world never seems to slow down. I continue to feel restless no matter how many items I knock off of my to-do list.

Recently I had an insight that restlessness is one of my habits. It’s a way of being that I have realized is completely unrelated to my circumstances!

That means, no matter how short my to-do list is, or how caught up I am in life, I will still feel restless.

Until having this realization, it really seemed that it was life causing me to feel this way, where feeling restless, worried, and rushed was caused by external events.

But now I see it’s a habitual way of being that I am bringing to life.

And so when I return from a busy week and I notice I’m feeling restless, it often slips under the radar. Even though I teach these things to others, it can still be a blind spot where it seems like I am behind in life and so I feel restless until I catch up.

But no matter how much catching up I do, there is no end to the to-do list and so there is no end to feeling restless.

Because restlessness is coming from inside me. And I am bringing that state-of-mind and way of being to life.

THEN I remember I must slow down my inner world in order to slow down my outer world.

And I do that by coming back to a state of presence. Back to Being. Back to Clarity.

Radiating from my center of calm clarity, peace, presence.

I remember that it’s a light switch that I can turn on from within at any time.

And when I do, the pace of life slows down.

I am no less productive (in fact, I am more productive).

My to-do list isn’t shorter (in fact, it’s the exact same!)

However I bring my best self to all of life.

As opposed to running around trying to get rid of the feeling of restlessness.

I remember who I really am.

Then my habits of restlessness, feeling rushed, and worried simply fall away.

And I settle back in to the slower pace of life that is filled with more ease as I align myself again with clarity and presence.

-Tracey

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Tracey Gazel?

Strategic Leadership Consultant?

Rising?Higher?Consulting?Inc.

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