Slowing Down — The Power of Choice

The workplace of today is generally designed to produce efficiency in the pursuit of better, faster and cheaper. Everybody that I know feels pressure to do more and more in the workplace. Well, in the Digital Age most work that is linear or repetitive will be done by technology. We humans will be needed to do the tasks that the technology won’t be able to do well. Those tasks generally involve higher order thinking: Critical, Creative, Innovative, Emergent, and Moral; and high emotional engagement with others.  To excel at those tasks requires us to “slow down” and bring our “Inner Peace” to the conversation – to every meeting. This requires you to be very sensitive to your body - your heart rate; your temperature; and what I call your inner motor. Is it “racing”? Or is it calm, centered, and peaceful? 

To think and emotionally engage with others at our highest levels requires us to slow down our mind, our body and our emotions so that we can be in the state of Inner Peace which enables the types of complex thinking and human engaging that will be needed.  By slowing down, we can take more ownership of our thinking and our behaviors. Slowing down reduces fast automatic or reflexive ways of reacting. Slowing down gives you more control over how you think, relate and behave.