Rushing Is Not Flowing 🛤️
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I once believed my worth was measured in speed.
How much I could do.
How fast I could do it.
How little I could rest and still appear composed.
It worked… until it didn’t.
"Nature never rushes, yet everything is accomplished. Are you rushing or flowing?"
Until I burned out.
Until every “yes” became a quiet betrayal.
Until the pace I prided myself on became the very thing that robbed me of peace.
Then one afternoon, I sat under a tree.
Nothing profound. No perfect weather. Just stillness.
And I watched a leaf fall.
No panic. No productivity. No performance. Just presence.
The tree wasn’t worried.
It didn’t strive.
It didn’t hurry the wind.
And yet…
Everything got done.
The leaf still fell.
The season still changed.
The process still worked.
Nature isn’t passive. But it is patient.
It doesn’t confuse force with power.
Maybe your problem isn’t that you’re lazy.
Maybe it’s that you’ve confused rushing with purpose, when real purpose doesn’t sprint.
It flows.
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Today, ask yourself:
"Is this moment calling for speed, or for trust?"
Then take one thing on your list, just one, and approach it with the mindset of a river, not a race.
Let it be deliberate.
Let it breathe.
And remind yourself:
Flow accomplishes what force can’t.
You were not designed to move at the speed of algorithms.
You were designed to be.
To breathe.
To trust.
To honor the natural pace of growth. Which includes pauses, stillness, even seasons of retreat.
Nature never rushes, and yet it never fails to bloom.
You don’t have to rush to matter.
You just have to stay rooted long enough to remember how it feels to flow.
Where in your life have you been forcing outcomes that are meant to unfold?
Is it in your healing?
Your relationships?
Your creative work or career?
When was the last time you allowed something to arrive in its own time, without panicking, without pushing?
If you’re ready, share it.
Let’s remind each other that urgency isn’t always wisdom.
Sometimes, it’s just exhaustion pretending to be ambition.
If you’re here, you’re part of something real, something that holds space for healing without the need to perform. I don’t take that lightly.
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If you think these gentle words cut deep, wait until you read Shadow Thoughts. That’s where I let the truth bleed without cleaning it up for anyone.
