Going slow is going fast

[Balo666]

In the quest to be our best version, with the arrival of a new year or some important event, we suddenly want to devour the world and we try to change our personality completely: Our eating, social, physical, mental or spiritual habits.

Although this desire aims for greatness, without understanding the human mind, this will just go as far as a desire due to the resistance of the mind to change.

It's not about how soon we'll start seeing gains at the gym, or when we'll start losing weight thanks to diet, but how we can implement these things in such a way that they're a subtle change in our life and not a huge one. This is important.

It's the subtle changes implemented consistently that create huge results in the future.

Personally, I have seen many cases in which someone wants to grow, so they try to start improving their diet (breakfast, lunch and dinner), start going to the gym or read a book in a consistent way (sometimes all this things together), and then give it all up in less than a month due that this is unsustainable. I'm sure everyone here has seen or experienced cases like this.

The smaller the change you implement, the easier it will be to be consistent. Changing a diet completely is unsustainable without a lot of external support or will power, and I'm not trying to say that my brothers here are incapable of these changes, but what I want them to understand is that the amount of effort that must be applied is correlated with the success rate, and I am interested in my brothers here achieving their goals.

The reality is that the sooner we understand that it is in slowness that the body, mind and soul truly find the ability to change, the sooner we will really change.

Going slow is going fast.

-Balo666

 

[Dina]

Great and inspirational words, thank you for sharing!

 

[Astrid]

I enjoyed this post a lot!

I agree completely, the right attitude is to see each day as a new day to be a bit better than we were yesterday so that over time we see ourselves morph into the person we want to be

 

[kanine6]

Totally agree, I myself have tried to bite too much and I ended up lost somewhere, wanting something but not doing anything I wanted and start blaming myself. We are learning. But, sometimes, drastic changes are a necessity, and if our environment is in favor, this can happen. But it is a rare case

 

[Draconis88]

Absolutely. As you said, we want to devour the world, and our enthusiasm leads us to make sudden changes, but the truth is that we must look for sustainability, as we try to change. The human mind works with habits, and to set a new habit time is needed, but if we set and work on long-term objectives, we can surely be successful.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

The Navy Seals say "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

This is mostly talking about doing difficult physical actions while they are afraid or in a bad situation. Meaning that if you panic and you try to do something too fast as a reaction, you will be messing up. Your hands would be shaking and imprecise. It would take multiple tries to actually do it correctly. But if you calm down and force yourself to do it in a calm and slow way, then you will not be panicked and overwhelmed and you will do it successfully the first time.

 

[Villainous]

Earlier on, I used to try doing it all. And the results used to be similar, fatigue and burn out and end up lamenting. It has been a challenge until I realized recently to just pick one thing and master it first before moving to the next. Habits take time, consistency matters most, but we must take on smaller tasks that we can be able to do without being exhausted. Thank you so much for this.