There is merit in slowing down.

In today's world, there's a lot of emphasis on scale, on expanding fast, in achieving goals quickly, eating fast food, doing things in a swift and efficient manner. But I'm here to make a case for slowing things down once a while. When you hit pause, you're not hitting a full stop. You're just catching a breath, trying to realize where you're going, what you're pursuing, and why. Whether it comes to shaping your own career or building your own business, there are times when you need to take a pause, see how things are going, and really channel your energy, your time, your resources in the right direction. If you keep running very fast, occasionally you might realize that you've been running in the wrong direction. So I often take these think days and think weeks where I try and focus a lot more on reflecting on what I did and how things turned out, and then deciding to hit the accelerator when I feel ready. There have been times in my life when I measured my output in terms of how efficient I was and how productive I was, and I think that has really helped me for the most part. But there have been times when efficiency towards the wrong goal or towards something that you don't necessarily care about or which is not right for you can lead you astray. So slowing down is important in today's day and age. We're all largely at home trying to get through our work, our lifestyles, stuff to be done indoors. And there are a lot more meetings, there are a lot more conversations, but sometimes the depth is missing. We often miss being able to bounce off ideas on the office hallway or on a coffee, coffee shop or what have you, just the serendipity of people. And while that is led to a lot more messaging and texting, I realized that it's all designed for efficiency and speed and exchange of information. And it makes sense to see the kind of conversations we've been having digitally, the depth, if we find them missing. It's time to try and slow relationships down, slow friendships down, slow our even work progress down once a while to make sure that we are investing time in the right people, on the right sources of energy and information, and also giving time to pause and reflect on the direction we are taking these days. Every few months, sometimes every few years, we have to change our career paths, change our aspirations, change where we live. And in doing so, it makes sense to slow down once a while so that we don't have to hit a rock bottom. And then when we are forced to slow down, I think that is far more painful than taking these occasional breaks to see how it goes. When you take a break when you slow down it's important to really unplug for a while and see how things are. When we focus on getting right decisions or taking right decisions I think there's a lot more merit in making decisions right. It's impossible to take decisions you know with 100% information and data. We have to many times rely on gut and when we realize that we have taken a step in the wrong direction instead of running in the opposite direction which we should do sometimes it makes sense to, you know, pause, reflect, do a little bit of a diagnostic and push ourselves in the right direction. So slow down once a while. It'll help you long term. It'll make life a lot more interesting. It'll make a lot work a lot more meaningful and it'll also give you the energy and motivation to go for the long haul. Take care, be safe and see you on NetworkCapital TV.