Have you ever been on a Ryanair flight and as soon as the plane hits the Tarmac, you hear the clicking of seat-belts being undone. The flight attendant announces (with a tone of annoyance, because she probably says hundreds of times a day) "please remain in your seats with your seat belts fastened until the seat-belt sign is switched off"
Where are they rushing to? Are they trying to get a head start through the doors that aren't open yet? Or make it first down the stairs that aren't there yet? And did you ever notice that those same people, that literally wanna knock you over so they get out first, are always there waiting to pick up their bags? Nothing happens quicker for them because their in such a hurry. What's your point Evette??
I randomly found a pdf/book on my tablet that I completely forgot I had.
It's called The Majesty of Calmness.
Ironically or not I was reading it on a 2hr flight to Madrid where I noticed the "big hurry people" from a new perspective. What's the big hurry?
This incredible book was written by William George Jordan and originally published in 1902
But the principles and social commentary is so relevant to our time here and now.
But the principles and social commentary is so relevant to our time here and now.
The following is taken from a chapter called Hurry, the Scourge of America
Hurry is a counterfeit of haste. Haste has an ideal, a distinct aim to be realized by the quickest, direct methods. Haste has a single compass upon which it relies for direction and in harmony with which its course is determined. Hurry says: I must move faster. I will get three compasses; I will have them different; I will be guided by all of them. One of them will probably be right. Hurry never realizes that slow, careful foundation work is the quickest in the end.
So as I read it, I had an instant reaction to it. I'm always in a hurry, I'm not a stress bunny about it. But as a single mother who runs two businesses life's busy. So imagine me asking myself "are my actions hurry or haste?" Haste remember "
Haste has an ideal, a distinct aim to be realized by the quickest, direct methods."
Haste has an ideal, a distinct aim to be realized by the quickest, direct methods."
I tell you I never get tired of the simplicity of "truth" and the continuous learning life and times bring me.
Thanks to the awesomeness of the Internet I can share this incredible pdf/book with you.
It's 18 pages of pure gold that gave me a paradigm shift on a 2hr flight.
Stepped off the plane a slightly different version of myself.
I guess that's how quickly change affects you if you're open to it.
Keep on growing!!! #learnsharegrow
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