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Slow Growth

Here’s the thing about all those systems of development that insist you have to be engaging in maximum hustle activity all the time.

They waste a considerable amount of your energy. Boom! (As they say).

The thing is, meeting challenges and striving are great, but thrashing at circumstances that simply won’t budge is stupid. And it drains the energy that could be used looking for where you can expend resources in ways that are in tune with you and bring you sustainable results without burning you to a frazzle.

Sometimes circumstances do not invite you to be furiously busy, not expending huge effort to plant seeds in frost-bound earth as hard as iron because it’s winter.

When progress seems to have come to a halt, maybe it’s an invitation to be still for a while, to consider your deep roots and the origins of your essential energy.

Being still can allow a larger context to appear, letting you see how things can grow within the surrounding circumstances.

There’s a skill to knowing which circumstances are challenges to overcome and which simply indicate the need for reassessment.

Don’t thrash yourself to pieces.