The Reason Why People Prefer Hurry Over Thorough Is Fear
Here are 8 questions bold people dare to ask themselves to be ahead
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Here comes your weekly permission to Un-rush and Stress Less.
Timeless insights and impulses on how the power of slow helps you grow - in a rushing world crushing your life
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INSIGHT
The Reason Why People Prefer Hurry Over Thorough Is Fear
8 questions bold people dare to ask themselves to be ahead
How will you cope with change in a world where uncertainty is the norm and information overflow is twisting your brain?
Very often, in the course of our hectic workdays and the backdrop of uncertainty, it seems more efficient to shortcut. Don’t ask too many questions, play safe, get things done, don’t think too much.
I believe that there are some fundamental concepts and values that are as important and helpful in the future as they were in the past when it comes to navigating our daily lives. With those basic keys, you are more in control than you think when it comes to decision-making, solving problems, and facing changing times.
Luckily, even both research and thought leadership also suggest that more reflection, pausing, and asking more and better questions are necessary to keep up with a rushing world looking for quick answers.
Taking the time to ask the right questions might look slow and boring to others, but you will navigate the hurry culture with more confidence and serenity.
Here are eight key questions that might sound overused or too fluffy, but if you give them a thought, you will realize that they are timeless building blocks that will help you keep your life and your work on track for the long shot.
1. Are You Seeing The Bigger Picture?
In our fast-rolling, constant on-demand world, we get lost in detail and lose sight of the big picture.
We can look into every corner of the world, can get information about everything, and are constantly tinkering with our networks, and yet we seem to lose sight of the big picture, that everything is somehow connected.
Despite the intensity of our daily lives and surroundings, the world is not all about you or me. There is a bigger picture out there that we can grasp if we are just curious and open enough, and consciously turn our attention outward.
Seeing the bigger picture is about the ability to be aware of the world around us to better perceive and understand the overall contexts and to assess situations with an alert mind.
2. What Are You Grateful For?
You fight. You get annoyed with yourself, with others, and the world around you. Do you think about the good stuff that you have, that you experience, that you see?
What are you grateful for? Do you sometimes take time to reflect on that?
Being grateful has so much power. As research has shown, gratitude can be a very effective booster of mood, mindset, and health.
A little bit of gratitude goes a very long way.
3. Do You Underestimate The Power Of Kindness?
Kindness is the currency that connects us all.
Kindness can boost happiness. It can improve mental health, and kindness has a physical impact on the brain. Kindness creates opposite internal effects from stress. This is not just empty talk, it is scientifically proven.
The Norwegian business philosopher, author, and public speaker Anders Indset wrote:
“I don’t want to live in a world where kindness is mistaken for weakness.”
And Gary Vaynerchuk said: “To me, there’s no debate that kindness is a strength. And it breaks my heart to know that so many people believe it’s a weakness.”
Choose kindness more often, and more effectively.
4. Do You Always Have Your Most Important Key, Curiosity, With You?
Curiosity is key to our growth and self-exploration. Curiosity makes you move forward and keep going.
A naturally curious mind is interested in a wide range of topics and likes to find connections to help solve problems. Curiosity is something that prepares the brain for learning, for finding ideas and solutions, for being creative.
With an open mind and curiosity, you open yourself to a world of knowledge, people, cultures, skills, and experiences.
5. Do You Keep Your Sense Of Wonder?
Where did our sense of wonder go? Have we lost it?
In a world that bombards and distracts us daily with far too much everything, we often miss the magical opportunities, a sense of wonder in the moment of now.
A sense of wonder, or fascination, gives us a sense of vastness that makes us feel small. But this tends to decrease our mental chatter, clutter, and worries and helps us think about ideas, issues, and people outside ourselves.
It improves creativity and collaboration as well as energy.
6. Where On The Spectrum Between Optimist And Pessimist Are You?
I admit it, I am an undeniable optimist.
Some people react to situations with an optimistic posture, or others with a pessimistic mood. You see how things unfold and decide, in an optimistic or pessimistic fashion, to pursue an outcome.
Our outlook and mood are a choice. And that choice of attitude towards a situation determines how we behave and what impact we not only have on the situation but also on the people involved.
The Dalai Lama is producing a vividly contagious optimism. Author and travel writer Pico Iyer who has been talking for 35 years to the Dalai Lama, and “covering him everywhere from Zurich to Hiroshima, as a non-Buddhist, skeptical journalist” writes: “The Dalai Lama I’ve seen is a realist (which is what makes his optimism the more impressive and persuasive).”
7. Do You Inject Appreciation Into Your Daily Life?
Do you realize how good it feels to be appreciated?
Because it gives you the feeling of being valued. If someone takes the time to pay attention to you, to listen and put herself into your shoes, she shows you how much she values you.
There is something about being liked and liking people that warms our hearts and gives us a sense of comfort and happiness.
Why? Because it connects us. Feeling appreciated strengthens the bond between people because as human beings we long for connection.
8. Are You Embracing Uncertainty And Making It A Daily Habit?
Do you think you have to feel more confident and prepared before taking the next step?
You don’t need to have it all mapped out. You just need to take the first step and get started.
And you can practice getting started by just “starting” every day. Every day there is something, even tiny little things, that challenges you to get out of your comfort zone, that allows you to start with one first step before you feel ready.
IMPULSES
Curated stories on the topic of slowing down and stressing less, designed to open up new ways of looking at why you should give yourself permission to un-rush.
Your Wish For More Speed And Efficiency At Your Chosen Hotel Might Come At A Cost For Your Health
In the hospitality industry, the desire for a quicker room turnaround turned out to harm both employee safety and customer satisfaction.
As the daily room-cleaning quota for hotel housekeepers rose from the number of rooms they could clean with thoroughness to more rooms per shift that forced them to rush with their cleaning - the injury risk of the staff and the dissatisfaction rate of the guests rose as well.
While the hotel management saved money on staffing, the properties’ cleanliness, the number one reason guests don’t return to a hotel, was compromised. Research has found that the level of bacteria forming on surfaces in hotel rooms was 24 times higher than what hospitals deem is the “highest limit acceptable.”
Stress Caused By Social Inequality
Striving to get ahead in an unequal society contributes to people in the USA aging quicker
A cardiologist, endocrinologist, obesity specialist, health economist, and social epidemiologist all said versions of the same thing: Striving to get ahead in an unequal society contributes to people in the United States aging quicker, becoming sicker, and dying younger.
Social inequality causes stress and too much stress in children and adolescents can trigger academic, behavioral, and health problems, including depression and obesity.
Stress seems in a way to be such a vague term, but it still gives the researchers a leverage point to get in there and see a more complex and more frightening picture of what it does to people’s bodies and minds.
Trying to change that with some mindfulness classes or a new app on your phone that will remind you to take deep breaths when you’re feeling stressed is not the solution.
We need a mindset shift on how we think about stress and speed culture.