A Question of Pace

[rfc@i-change.biz]

Sometimes I have noticed that it isn’t that the ‘wrong’ things are happening, simply that they are either happening too fast or too slow for us. I’m not sure which is more challenging. Too slow and we get impatient and try to force things to happen; too fast and we go into overwhelm. Dealing with Change is a much a matter of getting the pace right as much as the sequence.

Champion athletes are lucky enough to have access to a pace setter, we don’t have this luxury, so we have to master the twin arts of waiting patiently, and the stress of handling it when it comes at us from every direction at the same time. I think one key is trust. Trusting the Universe to give us what we need, and trusting our own ability to handle what it chucks at us. After all, as Nietzsche observed “that which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”

At the moment I seem to be having to deal with both extremes at the same time! Some elements are just taking forever to work out and I find myself wondering if I have, somehow, got it wrong; and at the same time, the other day I was inundated in a sh1tstorm of epic proportions! And today, the pendulum seems to have swung back to its middle position.

Do you have any helpful strategies in dealing with the pace when it gets out of hand?

“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.” Donald Miller

[Kay]

I think I see what you're getting at. For me it's a case of - you never know what's around the corner. There's always something there. (A religious person would say "The Lord provides, but I'm not religious at all.) There is always something there, though, even when you're at you lowest ebb - something new appears. You just have to live in hope and something always crops up for you.

[AdamW]

I just tend to suck it and see. For me things are often swinging to the extremes but I deal with things accordingly. If something is taking too long I do what I can to speed up, or make the most of the break that delay might afford me. If things are going to fast I go into overdrive

[rfc@i-change.biz]

I think that adapting your own pace to respond to what is going on around you is right and sensible.

Trusting is also helpful , though not always easy !

[AboveParr]

I thrive on having just a little bit too much to do, so moving a bit too fast suits me perfectly - as long as it's not TOO fast!

I find that when things are moving too slowly I just move onto something else in the meantime. If I didn't, I would lose interest while waiting. I can always find something else to do - oh the joys of everyone else's admin...