Joe notices a pattern in himself: when something needs doing and he turns toward it with clarity, it flows. When he pushes — “oh my God we have to get this done” — he loses himself, speeds up, enjoyment drops, and at the end of the day he needs a break. The pushing feels faster but actually produces less.
When he catches the push and asks “what’s actually needed here?” instead, everything seems slower but ends up happening quicker. He tried asking his “slowness” what to do about a big business decision. The answer: “More will be revealed.”
“I noticed I was pushing… and I thought, how about if I ask the slowness what it wants to do?”
The wisdom of the body’s calmness is: don’t force the decision. Stay focused, be on point, but don’t push. Looking back, Joe sees that forced decisions are typically the worst ones.
Related Concepts
- Overwhelm begins when you leave flow to manage reality
- Enjoyment dissolves procrastination
- Should creates stress, not change
- Procrastination contains wisdom worth listening to
- The mind inflates tasks to avoid the feelings underneath
- Intuition sees what the logical mind cannot