Never in a Hurry

Consider this mindset:

• Never in a hurry
• Never worried
• Never desperate
• Never stopping short

Once more, an inspirational passage from Ryan Holiday’s ‘The Obstacle is the Way’.

The chapter that this appears in speaks about persisting in your tasks. Or as Ryan puts it, attacking your obstacle. 

So imagine your work, your life, your mission looking like this. 

• Never in a hurry
• Never worried
• Never desperate
• Never stopping short

I get a mental image of the ocean inexorably wearing down cliffs to boulders to rocks to gravel to sand to dust. 

When I think of this mindset, I want it. Why can’t I think of my life at this scale and at this pace?

It is the almost opposite of most my days: 

• Always in a hurry
• Always worried
• Always desperate
• Always stopping short

The exact opposite of what I want for my life, my mission and my work.

I am not sure that hurrying, worrying, desperation, and stopping short have ever made anything better in anyone’s life. Certainly not mine. 

As I think about it, and if I am honest with myself, the only thing that is stopping me from a more peaceful, resilient and steadfast mindset is me…  

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I was asked by Tom Panos last month if I wrote these blogs myself. 

I answered him’ yes’… Except, I said, for that one time I used ChatGPT to help write a short conclusion when I was struggling to pull the threads of my thoughts into a cohesive ending. I was simply out of time (always in a hurry…). But it didn’t work beautifully and I had to rewrite mostly anyway. I also felt like a bit of a traitor to myself, because getting my thoughts in line is the point. AI can’t do that for me (hmm got to be careful what I say here… maybe it can). 

This blog is part journaling, part marketing, part trying to impart a bit of wisdom – almost always wisdom picked up from others.

I sincerely appreciate your readership, thank you.  

Have a great week and all going to plan, you will hear from me again this time next week!