Learn how to avoid it and recover your smile.
Happy people don’t eat a different breakfast.
They realized that to be happy every morning is enough to avoid just one thing: rushing.
But don’t worry because awareness changes everything, and avoiding rushing is easy when you know the consequences.
Let’s look at a few of them.
1. Rushing makes you prioritize the urgent over the important.
There are two kinds of things in your daily basics,
- The urgent (work, social commitments, domestic obligations, bill payments, etc.)
- The important (saying “I love you” to your partner, spending time with your family, getting in touch with your friends, taking care of your pets.)
The problem is when you don’t balance those two categories correctly.
- Too many urgent issues = poor social life.
- Too many important issues = less success.
It would be best to have balance, or your relationships would suffer.
You must allocate quality time for your loved ones, or you’ll never be truly happy, no matter how much money you make.
2. Rushing = poor decision making
Rushing reduces the percentage of good decisions you make throughout the day.
When you are always in a hurry, you usually act without thinking about the consequences, Right?
You keep doing what you have to do on autopilot.
That makes you fail more often than you want to.
And that leads you to a state of mind full of frustration and anger.
A state where you are incapable of assuming your responsibility.
When you are in a hurry, and things go wrong, you think it is the other person’s fault.
Everybody is your enemy. And you are a holy saint 🙂
And that kind of dissociation from reality makes you unhappy because you see everyone as an obstacle instead of a human being.
3. Bad habits need company, and rushing is the perfect one.
The day off is a nightmare when you spend your life always busy.
Because you are so active that you can’t even disconnect from work and engage with your loved ones.
You can’t take it easy. You can’t let it be.
You can’t.
Living in workaholic mode means you cannot enjoy a single day off.
And that it’s just the point of the iceberg.
Rushing leads you to eat badly, sleep badly, train badly, and smoke or drink too much to alleviate the stress.
Rushing sucks the joy of your existence like a vacuum cleaner.
4. Rushing makes you have a mediocre life.
Rushing makes you a multitasking freak.
- You cook while you make cold calls to potential clients.
- You chat when you drive (and that’s illegal and dangerous)
- You check the email in the middle of a date.
And living that way leads you to a mediocre life because you are never fully present doing the thing you suppose to be doing.
Your levels of concentration decrease, and also your results. — you spend double or triple the time doing half.
5. Rushing cancels out the stoic in you.
Rushing makes you focus on what you can’t control and divert your attention from what you can.
And that’s the opposite of being a stoic.
The rush makes you go crazy in traffic jams as if blowing your whistle would make the cars in front of you disappear.
The rush makes you complain in line at the supermarket as if by doing so, someone would give up their turn.
The rush makes you deny others by imposing your standards, worldview, and opinion.
The rush makes you be an assh*le with the waiter for taking your food two minutes late.
Rushing makes you mean.
Recap for the memory
- Rushing makes you prioritize what is urgent and forget what is important. And that destroys relationships.
- The percentage of correct decisions you make quickly is lower than when you are calm—more rushing = more bad decisions = less success.
- Rushing lead you to eat badly, sleep badly, and disconnect badly.
- Rushing makes you mediocre because you take twice or three times as long to do things and do them with less quality.
- Rushing makes you become obsessed with what you cannot control and forget to use your greatest resource: the control of your reactions. And all this leads you directly to an existence of frustration and suffering.
Conclusion: don’t complicate your life with a thousand self-help tricks if you want to be happier. Take life with less haste, and you will be more happy.
A virtual hug
AG
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