The Secret to Slowing Down
In a world filled with time hacks and productivity widgets, I have found the secret is to slow down.
Yes, you can slow down to speed up.
But you can also slow down to slow down.
The secret to slowing down requires a simple but often missed understanding…
The understanding is this: there is not better than here.
There (some imagined future) is not better than here, aka: right now. Aka, the glorious and only ever real, present moment.
The past is only real in our minds, and the same is true of our future.
But this current moment?
THIS moment! The moment my fingers are pecking these keys…
And I mean fairly miserably pecking. I really should’ve paid more attention in typing class.
It stands to mention, typing class is the only class I wish I would’ve been more committed to!
— Side note. As I was writing this post, I realized.
Maybe my typing isn’t that bad. We don’t really know what goes on with other people’s keyboards, do we?
But I do know it could be much, much better!
Ah ha! Why not utilize a present moment and improve upon this area?
Why not create my own fate. Why not practice typing?!
So, I took a quick times test —- yes, right in the middle of writing this article; I opened a new tab, of course! And took a test.
My typing was 72 wpm with 96% accuracy.
I took the test again and got 59 wpm with the same accuracy.
Third try at the test was 75 wpm an 99% accuracy.
But that took A LOT of concentration!!
A quick new search (yes, another tab) showed me that good, productive typing speed is between 50-70wpm.
But excellent/advanced is around 80.
So, now I now.
It’s excellent or bust for life, in my mind.
Anyway. This moment!
The one I am capturing as I write this, and the one you find yourself in as you read this.
The current and beautiful present moment.
If we slow down enough, we will see the beautiful present moment in front of us.
And the curse of all curses? To be so preoccupied in our minds, that we miss the beautiful now moment in front of us.
The antidote? Slowing down. Finding the space between thoughts. Taking in the world around us through our five precious senses.
This, like typing, is a practice.
with love,
Sylvia