You told yourself \u201cLife will slow down once we get through the holidays\u201d \u2026then you realize you have been telling yourself that about pretty much everything for years now\u2026 \u201cAfter this event things will slow down\u201d, \u201cOnce I finish this project things will slow down\u201d, \u201cAs soon as we get through this holiday things will slow down\u201d\u2026but life never really slows down, does it?<\/p>\n
One of my big weaknesses in life is that I get so focused on wanting to complete things that I often forget to enjoy the process of doing things. When I have a task I want to accomplish I feel stressed out until I\u2019ve completed it. It often sucks the joy out of the process.<\/p>\n
The desire to finish things has been a positive in that it has pushed me to stay driven and accomplish much in my life. But the requirement to finish things before feeling happy has been a negative in that it has kept me from enjoying the journey as much as I should be.<\/p>\n
It was just a week ago I told myself, \u201cIf I just get through the holidays things will slow down\u201d\u2026yet sitting here tonight I am realizing that life is never really going to slow down, so if I want to be happy I\u2019ve got to change my way of thinking about things going forward. I\u2019ve got to recognize that I\u2019ve got to stop getting all stressing out until all the tasks are done because the reality is that all the tasks will never be done. I\u2019ve got to remind myself that the journey is supposed to be enjoyable, not stressful, and if I\u2019m failing to enjoy the journey then I\u2019m failing overall\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cLife is to be enjoyed, not just endured.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> \u2013Gordon B. Hinckley<\/p>\n No more lying to myself – life isn’t going to slow down. But what’s true is we can choose to be better at enjoying the journey.<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You told yourself \u201cLife will slow down once we get through the holidays\u201d \u2026then you realize you have been telling yourself that about pretty much everything for years now\u2026 \u201cAfter this event things will slow down\u201d, \u201cOnce I finish this project things will slow down\u201d, \u201cAs soon as we get through this holiday things will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[632,395,20090,20083,20085,8181,2572,20084,41,67,571,18,19005,364,76,20089,1609,20088,20087,20076,20081,20078,545,20079,20080,20082,8573,7558,20086,20077,4440],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accomplishment","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-be-better-self-improvement","tag-completion","tag-crossing-the-finish-line","tag-do-better","tag-enjoy-the-journey","tag-enjoy-the-process","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-focus","tag-forbes","tag-forbesbooks","tag-goal","tag-goals","tag-going-forward","tag-gordon-b-hinckley","tag-learn-to-manage-it-better","tag-life-doesnt-slow-down","tag-life-is-to-be-enjoyed-not-just-endured","tag-life-never-slows-down","tag-life-will-slow-down-when","tag-move-forward","tag-once-i-finish-this","tag-once-this-is-over","tag-one-of-my-weaknesses","tag-someday","tag-stressed-out","tag-sucks-the-joy","tag-the-lie-you-told-yourself","tag-weaknesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10462,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions\/10462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}