Want off the treadmill? Can't seem to get it quite right? Here are some strategic ways to really stop.
1. Remind yourself that in this stressed out world full of demands that are unrealistic rest is not a luxury! It's a necessity. If you want longevity, creativity, productivity and effectiveness to be sustained in your life you must STOP!
2. Reframe what stopping is. It's not an abandonment of our lot in life. It's not a quitting. And it's not an end. Stopping is the beginning of something! Stopping is loading up on recreation to be as prepared as you can be to enter the next leg of your race in life. You lose if you got into it without having stopped.
Stopping Killers: The Work of Stopping
1. That agitated feeling you get where you can't sit still. Your mind constantly goes to phone calls, to do lists, social media posts, etc.work it through. Invite those triggers to be a part of the shutting down to stopping process. Eventually they leave till it's time to get going again.
2. A 'landing bump'. This is where all your issues that have been suppressed surface or disciplines that have been ignored begin to become evident. The temptation is to get busy again to control, ignore or maintain them at a distance. This is a season to journey through! To resolve issues or to get back to some basics or to re-prioritize things in your life. Facing head on these things makes you better and stronger going into the next leg. To run mounts up the EQ work to be done then you are at a wall.
3. Extreme fatigue leading to a sense of laziness, unproductively, frustration, even builder generation guilt. Again this is both necessary and temporal! We need a re-charge! As my wife often challenges me with by saying, 'Get off the cross...we need the wood.' no matter how divinely empowered we think we are with boundless energy our created beings can only go so far and take so much.
'I would not take a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.'
Oliver Wendell Holmes
