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Slow Down, You Move Too Fast - By Tony Schwartz

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flukky01:
I found this article very intriguing not only because it dives into the rat and cat races that has engulfed this fast-paced world of ours but because its true. Its true that we run for everything and rarely take time to relish the goodness along our path. While you wont need to slow down on all stuffs, you might want to relax a little and enjoy life along the way too.

Read Tony's Article here http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2012/04/slow-down-you-move-too-fast.html

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The faster we move, the less we feel, which may be a primary reason we move so fast. Most of us are more worried, uncertain, and insecure than we care to acknowledge, even to ourselves. Moving fast keeps those discomfiting feelings at bay.

So we deify doing. Just think about this senseless but venerable cliché: "No rest for the weary." Really? Isn't resting precisely what the weary ought to be doing?

To savor is to enjoy and appreciate something completely. It necessarily takes time and requires slowing down. So how might you build more savoring into your life? Try one of these:

    Designate one meal a day — or even one a week — during which you take the time to notice the aroma, flavor, and texture of what you're eating.
    Curl up in a favorite chair at some point after you return home from work and spend at least a half-hour reading a book purely for pleasure.
    Take the time to really listen to someone you love — to give that person the space to speak without interruption, for as long as it takes.
    Choose a place that interests you — it could be in the city or the country — and spend a couple of hours just exploring it without any specific end in mind.
    Buy a journal, and before you go to bed, take a few minutes to reflect on what you feel grateful for that day, and what went right.

Above all, slowly build more strolling, dawdling, moseying, meandering, musing, lingering, relishing, and savoring into your life.

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