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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Slow is Fast. Fast is Slow.

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Slow is Fast. Fast is Slow. I was riding my Harley-Davidson Road King a few days ago when my mind suddenly thought - “The Chinese Philosophical concept of Yin and yang describes how opposite or contrary forces may be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world.” What? What? Huh? It happened right in front of the Daytona Speedway and got me thinking about the advice I give my clients about slowing down. It goes like this - “You must slow down to get what you want.” Advice like that is why I get the big bucks for what I do. No, not really. I get paid because nobody believes me, and it’s up to me to prove it. Let’s go riding. Whenever I’m cruising on my motorcycle, I love it fast and loud, and it makes me smile. That’s the Yin of riding a bike, but you can only go fast and loud for so long before the light turns red in front of you or blue behind you.   Occasionally the place you were speeding toward gets congested, and you have no choice but to slow down. But when you are a high-performance machine designed to go fast, slowing down can be challenging - especially on an 800-pound Harley.  That’s where the Zin of riding a motorcycle comes into play. Slowing down is the opposite of fast, yet it can yield the same result - if you know what you are doing. Whether it’s your life or a motorcycle, success requires precision control. If you get it right and trust yourself and your machine, you will continue to make progress.  On a motorcycle… 1) Slow down but keep moving. Never stop. 2) Rev your engine so that you always have power to your wheels. 3) Since the motorcycle wants to go faster, pull the clutch into the friction zone between nothing and everything while putting your foot on the rear brake. What? Slow down? Rev your engine? Hit the brakes? Yes. That combination virtually assures that you keep moving forward in any situation, in full control, until it’s time to open it up again. That same thing happens in life. You can’t run full out all the time, and sometimes you must stop. You keep moving forward for everything else in between, no matter how slow you go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

how are you happy holidays man it is crazy crazy crazy so fast going on right

0:20.9

now I have seen you driving on the roads and in the parking lots it's amazing

0:26.7

you can get any presence back home the way everybody's driving right now but I want

0:31.0

to talk about slowing down if that's okay over the years I spent a lot of

0:35.0

time slowing down myself and telling others to slow down as well because we do

0:38.8

get kind of crazy and we we kind of can't see the forest through the trees kind

0:43.0

of thing so I'll chat about that a little bit today for you and give you an idea

0:46.6

how to do it and I understand maybe you can't slow down right now but after

0:50.9

the holidays you can maybe it's a good chance it is a daily boost from

0:54.6

motivation to move calm the positive boost you need every single day it's a

0:59.9

really simple equation this goes back to but it probably as long as mankind has

1:04.3

been on this planet life begins when you move I mean if if the food you want

1:10.2

to eat is over there and nobody else is around you got to get up and go get

1:13.3

it right so life begins when you move but lots of time somebody leaves a

1:17.1

shoe in the middle of the path or a stick or something and you're tripping

1:20.7

your fall something gets in the way that's life what do we do we get up when we

1:24.2

fall and just go get the food right that's success and you do it anyway you do

1:28.6

it naturally but sometimes when we take our dreams our desires when we face our

1:32.8

passion we go in that direction sometimes we forget that we have to stand up

1:36.2

take a step for feed and and just keep doing that get caught up in it we'll

1:41.8

chat a whole lot about that in the coming new year and a lot today too as

1:44.9

well I apologize my voice a little scratchy today I had a a solid workout

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