Being Slow, Steady, Calm and Consistent

Being Slow, Steady, Calm and Consistent

Have you ever felt that you need to go faster? Do societal pressure push on you to make you achieve your goals faster than you would personally like? If so, I want to share the idea of staying calm and relaxed whenever we are doing something. We need to do everything slowly and steadily. What I mean is that there is no need to rush things and a need to do everything quickly. This means that we should calmly do our day-to-day tasks and not be rushed by time. Here are the advantages:

1. Short-term haste: We should not feel pushed by time in the short-term (24 hours). We will simply exhaust ourselves in trying to achieve our goals and probably waste the whole day. Those who have nothing to do feel that time is passing away slowly. However, those who have a lot to do feel rushed by time. But they shouldn't be because this rush will only ruin the quality of their work.

2. Long-term haste: We shouldn't feel pushed by the time in the long-term as well. Some of us may feel that we need to grow up quickly, achieve certain education, get married, have kids, have a good job, build a house etc. All these things take time. You simply cannot press a button and have them ready in front of you. We don't need to be hurried by the fact that we need to achieve things in the long run. In reality, being slow yet consistent will make us achieve things in the long run while just skipping over things will make us skip important things and we will fail in the long run.

3. Getting Rid of Work: We shouldn't try to get rid of work. Rather we should be sunk into it. We should dive deep into it while doing it. If we simply try to get rid of our work, we will miss out on the benefits of learning new things. We will simply complete the task and never be able to learn the technicalities of the task. Also, when we sink into the task and enjoy the experience, we will automatically feel relaxed and think more open-mindedly.

4. Mental Focus: We should be mentally focused on whatever we are currently doing and not be distracted by stray thoughts that can ruin the productivity of our task. Becoming a prey to day-dreaming can kill your time. It's good to dream. But its not good to live inside the dream. Rather, we should be indulged in our task and enjoying that task rather than the dream itself.

5. Missing out on added benefits: If we hurry, we may miss out on many benefits. So for example, if we are thinking about something else while reading a book, we will miss out on pondering over the ideas that we read. Also, you generally develop a thinking brain and get better ideas that you may have missed out if you were in a hurry.

6. Mood: Staying calm and relaxed helps us feel really happy and I don't know the science behind it, but I think some happiness-inducing hormones are released when we really understand something for the first time. Therefore, working calmly and steadily helps improve our general mood.

7. Our Attitude: If we work slowly and steadily, we remain relaxed and we can think rationally and we interact nicely with people and are less prone to be rude and bad with them. Also, we are more readily available to listen to them, instead of trying to get rid of them. We will not be annoyed by people, especially if are are annoyed that we couldn't meet a deadline and now we've got other work. And also our nature becomes calm, cool and collected.

8. Getting Tired: Working quickly and fastly will exhaust us more frequently.

HOWEVER, here are some points to remember:

1. Emergencies: It's a given that we don't need to be slow in an emergency situation. Of course being slow and steady means being slow yet consistent in our general daily tasks and our long-term tasks such as our education.

2. Be considerate: We should not annoy people with our slowness. Sometimes, people working with us may be annoyed by our excessive slowness. That is where we need to be considerate of them.

3. Just Try: Whatever we do, it's about trying, not achieving.

4. Peer Pressure: We shouldn't come under people's pressure to work faster and get things done. Everyone goes at their own pace in life. So for example if someone get's certain academic qualification faster than you, it doesn't mean that you're not good enough. It's just that right now is not the right time for you, unless you were actually lazy.

5. Internal restlessness: Satan may distract us to hurry up by making us feel like we're losing time. We should NOT fall for this trick. Every one knows that we're losing time. But what we want from time is quality, not quantity.

6. Laziness: However, being slow and steady does not mean that we become lazy. Being slowly and steady means that we focus and concentrate to beautify our work, but we also remain consistent and persistent.