Unhurrying for a Meaningful Decade

Key points

Pain taught me to slow my pace; pages over pixels restored attention and presence.

Slowing down is a practice: Audit inputs, protect one real task, and add micro-pauses.

Think in decades, not months—habits and intentional messages compound over time.

I didn’t slow down because I’m naturally serene. I slowed down because pain became a teacher I couldn’t ignore. My body started telling the truth faster than my calendar did. In that space, I noticed how much of my life ran on hurry, not purpose. Hurry gave me little hits of progress (another message, another meeting), but it starved the parts that make a life: attention , connection, wisdom .

One small shift surprised me: I began finishing books again—not summaries, not someone else’s highlights. I wanted my mind to have