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Slow Down and Enjoy …

February 20, 2009 / Dr. David A. Weiman / Leadership Blog, Productivity
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I’ve tried something over the past few weeks that I highly recommend:

Slowing down.

I have been hand-writing notes or picking up the phone instead of sending quick e-mails.

Cooking in an oven instead of a microwave.

Drying clothes on a drying rack instead of putting them in the dryer.

Talking slower.

Taking my time when I’m reading a book.

Easing off the gas pedal.

I started doing this after reading Bill Bryson’s witty and engaging book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, a memoir of his life as a boy growing up in the 1950’s.

I was raised in a different time than Bryson was, but still in the days before cell phones, DVDs, PlayStations and home computers. When I was a kid we had virtual reality. It was called “outside.”

The result of my slowing down is that I’m appreciating life a whole lot more.

I’m enjoying conversations more.

Listening better.

Eating more slowly and enjoying that more, too.

Life seems bouncy again. More fun.

Much better as I take the time to enjoy it more.

Let it soak in. I commend to you taking a little more time to do everything in your life.

See if it doesn’t result in richer experiences.

2 comments on “Slow Down and Enjoy …”

  1. Mary Q Contrarie says:
    March 22, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Nice post. We all need to learn to slow down. I like to think of it as being mindful of what I am doing and why I am doing it…

    I gave up my dryer a year ago and now only use a clothes drying rack it is amazing how much more I appriciate my clothing now that I am handling them more and just slowing down and thinking…

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  2. Dr. David Weiman says:
    March 23, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    This past weekend I did the same thing (true story, although I would have used the “communal” dryers in my building — ick) and recall that as a kid, we hung the sheets up on the clothes line in the backyard … I also like the fact that I’m not polluting as much when the sun dries them!

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