Day 14 - Slowing Down

“Our focus today was simple. When we slow down we’re able to enter that space of self reflection. The only place where any true change begins to happen.”

- Em Hrovat

Journal Thoughts

Slowing down is medicine. It's only when we slow down and stop seeking, searching, avoiding, and worrying that we can begin to open to to self reflection, the only way to truly grow and improve.

TAKING INVENTORY - A powerful mindfulness tool for self reflection

Take inventory of your situation; personal, professional, relational. Who do you spend the most time with? What types of conversations are you engaging with? What do you do for work? Do you have free time to enjoy? What are you watching, listening to, and thinking about. Grab a piece of paper, using the questions below, create columns for your inventory list. 

• What do you watch? (netflix, tv, news, vlogs, movies, social media scrolling)
  

• What do you listen to? (podcasts, music, radio)
  

• Who do you spend the most time with?
  

• What are the topics of conversation you engage in the most? (gossip, goal setting, uplifting or negative)
  

Look at your list.

Do any of the things you listed contribute to your improvement? Circle them.

Does anything pull you away from being your best self? Cross it out.

Once you start your list, it will become more and more obvious what habits, and patterns are definitely not serving your best, and this makes it easier to create real change as you start observing more often in the moment that you’d rather not engage with that toxic, gossip fueled conversation, or that this podcast is good because it inspires me with tips on how to live happy. Stopping and seeing what is there is the first step to personal improvement. 

I suggest engaging with this mindfulness practice as often as once a month, to keep yourself accountable to continue making skillful choices for yourself.