Pace Yourself!

Every road has a speed and every person too!

Modern life is about breakneck speed…Patience level has  gone down so much that we are even  irritated by the computer’s boot-up time. Impatience then becomes the primary source of stress…Is it not?

Impatience makes us to cram  such much stuff into our life…right from jumping out of the bed in the morning to falling back on to the bed , most of rush with little or no pause between the activities…so then what is the solution?

I am not sure , if there is one  “magic pill” for everyone to take cure the Speeditis…but there definitely are some ingredients, that we can try out in ways and proportions to create our own customized pill…

Here go the ingredients…

Create an early morning Habit:

Mornings are powerful because they can set the tone for the day…Would it be not nice then to create a   morning habit that you start the day with?  It could be Physical exercise, meditation, reading a nice book, Writing…or just to enjoy the quietness of the morning !  So, Gents and Ladies, tomorrow start an early morning habit…The rub of the early morning habit help you carry through the stressful day! To get the algorithm of forming a new habit, check out this Habit Formation

Do not Overdo!

Speed alone is not the issue…we want the results too in a short-span…and then we move at the peak speed of our limits only to run out of gas before we reach our destination!

For example, let us take jogging as an habit…you cannot aim for a 1-km run on day one with aim of running the  full marathon in the next month…It is going to take longer than that for even professionals…So do not overdo even at the risk of under doing…To sustain the activity , you got to find average speed and be consistent at it …

Pause !

Master jugglers of multi-tasking are the modern era’s Hercules. In an era of mobile apps to track your productivity to the minute, you would want to jump from one task to another task without mental break in between…

So, pause…be gentle on yourself …after completion of an intensive task , allow yourself to ruminate about how the task went by…allow the dust of your mind to settle down a bit…allow your mind to clear the cache of the task that just passed…Then proceed to whatever you want to do next!

So, pace yourself …at your own convenience…nobody else can do that for you ! Choose the speed at which you want to travel the journey of Life…

Any speed greater than zero in the right direction is fine enough in Life!