To Move Fast, Slow Down

The world is flying at your face with breakneck speed.

There are ten thousand times ten thousand inputs that are creating stress and anxiety in your life. It's exhausting.

Our tendency is to keep up. Or at least try our best.
If the world is running fast, we've gotta run faster. As more stuff flies our way, we run faster still.

Here's a dark secreet. You will never keep up. Not at this pace. Always behind becomes a way of life.

There is a counterintuitive solution to the madness.
You must slow down in order to speed up.

When life is going way too fast for you, don't try to make time.

Take time to slow down.

Learn to be slow.
Slow to speak.
Slow to anger.
Slow to respond.
Slow to say, "yes."
Take time for solitude and prayer.

When we slow down a surprising thing happens to us:

• You set the pace. The things you care about begin running with you.
• The things you don't really care about run ahead, or in another direction.

Leaders are not the people running the fastest. (Not usually)
Leaders are always the people who are most intentional.