Two Words That Will Change Your Life: Slow Down

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Two Words That Will Change Your Life: Slow Down While recovering from Total Hip Replacement, I engaged with a client on a Zoom call. He shared one of his favorite sayings, “Slow is fast, fast is slow,” which made me angry. Why? First Responders practice “Slow is fast, fast is slow” all the time, so you never see them running to the scene. Pacing themselves is simply safer, more effective, and faster. A more real-life example of why it’s a good idea to experience a risk-taking, lane-shifting driver passing you five times only to end up sitting next to you at the stop light—or worse. The reason I was angry was because I had not yet listened to the advice I give high-performance and driven individuals every day of my life — “SLOW DOWN! Step off the hamster wheel of life, wait for the wheel to stop spinning, and only then, begin your journey to whatever you want.” What I realized in my recovery from THR was my pre-surgery hamster wheel was still spinning on pure adrenaline, even though my medications and mobility had forced me to a stop a few days earlier. Once I recognized what was happening, I breathed and began my slow journey back to myself. If you struggle to implement a plan, I can promise you that you are pushing too fast, and until you force yourself to STOP - everything will keep spinning out of control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Never give up fighting till the end got to get back up no time for loss
0:07.6	fighting to the end no matter what the cost course. What is that Scott some kind of new motivational mantra you got there?
0:25.0	THR. THR. THR.
0:28.0	You got there? THR sounds good.
0:30.0	Total hip replacement in the books.
0:33.0	Got one now, accomplish that goal.
0:36.0	Prefer not to do it again.
0:38.0	But you'll hear a whole lot about it in the coming weeks
0:40.0	as I go through the process.
0:41.0	But I'm back now and glad to have you. I learned some
0:44.0	lessons and one of the lessons I learned that came to mind this morning as I decided
0:48.0	to just do this podcast and just pretty much do it live.
0:52.0	I didn't listen to some of the advice I give so many people all the time myself.
0:56.0	Two decades worth of giving the same advice constantly and I didn't hear it myself.
1:00.0	But I did a few days ago and I'll share that with you about slowing down a little bit
1:05.0	and why you need to do it.
1:08.0	It's a daily boost from Motivation of Move.com, the positive boost you need every single day.
1:15.1	Since 2006 doing this podcast, mostly with two original hips now, which is one.
1:19.6	I'm better. They rebuilt me. My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you. Now before I start today, I will tell you I take 100% full responsibility for what will likely be a mess of a podcast for a couple of days. Although maybe not, it's going to be kind of real,
1:34.3	kind of in your face and just kind of stream of consciousness with a bit of a bullet point plan so I don't go too far off the rails here.
1:40.3	But, and also I apologize for this crazy voice I got right now that's a bit of the
1:44.3	general anesthesia and the the drugs I was on for a few days thank goodness we have those
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