The harried contagion | Oct. 7, 2019 | Daybreak Note #183
Good morning, dear!
And hello, Monday! Here come the blaring deadlines, the ticking to-do lists, the unexpected curves, the juggling of a half-dozen balls that each can go splat if slipped.
Eek!
In the heated ecosystem of pressure, I tend to get a little heated myself. A little more short. A little more tight smile. A little more fast nodding. I'm in a hurry! Aren't you in a hurry? Shouldn't we be in a hurry?
But then, I run across a colleague or a friend or a random other Earth inhabitant who is calm in the heated haze.
In the 10 seconds that I nod rapidly and doubtless convey yes-yes-got-it-hurry-up-now-please, she takes the same 10 seconds to smile and wait, to listen and hear, to pause and consider.
And that slows me down, too.
I'm trying to slow down myself now. To not get caught up in the tornado of imminence, and instead live in the steady second of now.
Impatience and hurriedness are contagious. And that mode is not helpful. Nothing actually happens faster when you are harried and vibrating with worry. Only, now you've passed on the sense of anxiety.
Let's not be the harried one this week. Let's halt that contagion.
Let's together be the calm in the whirlwind, the steadiness in the turmoil, the present in the Monday moment.
With love,
Brianne
p.s. This is a favorite from the archive, originally published on June 4, 2018, as Daybreak Note #93. Still so true, friend.