Slow Down to Receive More

How to cultivate your thinking for transformative ideawork.

Early up and late in bed. Sometimes work seems like an endless string of tasks and projects. When we close on this side of the Earth, they open on the other side. Things change constantly. If you are not in front, you risk being left behind.

Nobody wants that, so we do our best to fit in and deliver as promised. We sense it could be different, but we cannot change the structure and culture, keeping us trapped on the treadmill. We are locked in and goal-directed, with no space for experimentation and exploration.

At least that is the story we tell. In fact, a new start is just a thought away:

• Take a breath.
• Become present and aware.
• Shift from fast thinking to slow thinking to no thinking.
• Enjoy the stillness.
• Ignore the familiar thoughts, and focus on the new ones arriving.

Voila!

Moving from thinking to having thoughts can do magic: breakthrough ideas, improved conditions, and transformed life paths. Let me explain.

Thoughts are mental representations of the world. Thinking is the mind processing thoughts to understand and manipulate the world…