If I continue this style of sprinting up the mountain for the rest of my life, what's that going to do to my body? Is that going to lead to heart attacks? Is that going to lead to mental breakdowns? If you want to be healthier, if you want to enjoy life a little bit more, if you want to be more effective at work and actually be good at your craft, and if you want to have good relationships at your workplace, if you want to have good personally? Slowing down is the key to that.

Hey everyone. Welcome to the Real Estate and Financial Independence Podcast. As always, I'm Chad Carson,

your host. You can also call me a coach,

and this is a show all about helping you get out of the financial grind, so you can do more of what

matters. Whether you're a brand new listener or a long-time listener, thank you for being back

for another episode. The title of today's episode is The Lost Art of Slowing Down. Now, you may not

know this, but a lot of the topics I talk about on this podcast,

a lot of the interviews I have are always helpful for me, first and foremost. I'm the first

audience member, the first listener. Today's topic about slowing down your business, slowing down

your investing, slowing down your life is one that first and foremost, I always need to hear.

And my family and I, many of you know, have moved to Spain. And one of my favorite parts about

the Spanish culture, also a lot of the countries I visited in South America, is the appreciation

for going a little bit slower when necessary or when it's appropriate. And so in this podcast episode,

I want to talk about the hurry and the fast-paced life that almost all of us tend to be

pressured into. And sometimes, you know, it's appropriate. Sometimes there's a time for hustle

when you're new to something, when you're growing your first, you know, property or two.

There's times you just have to hustle. You just got to be intense. You got to get it done. But I think what I want to talk about today is make the point that we're probably a little bit overbalanced. Maybe you know this. Maybe we're a little bit too stressed out. Maybe our health is suffering. Maybe even our business is suffering because we're hurrying, hurrying, going faster and faster and faster. We don't get to enjoy it where maybe our relationships are suffering because we're all

in on this other thing, but we're out of balance than another thing. And so that's the topic I want

to cover today talking about how to slow down more with our relationships, how to slow down more

in our business and actually be more effective as real estate investors or whatever other job or business you're in.

And also how to slow down in your personal life from a health standpoint, from an enjoyment standpoint, just to enjoy life a little bit more.

So we get started, I want to tell you a story from my own life that really brought home this idea of the importance of

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